Truth

DEVOTION
2 TIMOTHY

TRUTH
2 Tim 1:13-14

13 What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. 14 Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you — guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.
NIV

Do not discover a new teaching in other words. There must have been all forms of the gospel rooming around the country side in those days. There sure is all forms of doctrine about the Gospel rooming around the country side today. Why should I think the belief I have is rooted in the pattern of sound teaching I heard from the Word of God. Simply put, because it is. I believe I have the pattern, the simply truth as it is recorded for me, and shown to me by the Holy Spirit. I realize so many different views exist and many are from men who proclaim scholarship. I am sure there are learned men who profess to have the knowledge to correctly interpret the meaning of the scriptures. So I have to wonder why there are so many interpretations. Then I think it is because they have strayed from the pattern of sound teaching and have used the scriptures to justify their own pattern. I think this is the potential flaw all men are subject to. To first develop a pattern or belief than search out enough scripture to back up that belief is simply incorrect and does not conform to the pattern of sound teaching. Yet, have not I been accused of the same thing? Maybe so, but I surely have not done that. I have studied the scriptures with the leading of the Holy Spirit and believe all the Word of God, not simply portions of it which agree with my thinking. Yes, what some say is true, but it is not the whole complete truth, but only a portion of truth. All the scripture is truth and all of it is in agreement thus any belief must include it all. Some people may be impressed with style of worship or style or the personality of a particular leader or impressed by the form or design of a building and thus associate themselves with the doctrine apposed by that denomination, rather then being impressed with content of doctrine. Yet I still have to ask myself why do I think I have the right thinking, or right belief instead of those theologians and scholars? The answer is simply, because I believe what the bible says and it says it plan and simply so I can get it. I do not seek out hidden deeply imbedded meanings that are really not there. It is what it is and that is what it is. Could I develop a list of truths I believe? Would most of them agree with many of the lists of truth others have? I think so. But I still think many have wondered from the pattern of sound teaching. I pray the Holy Spirit will continue to lead me into all truth as he has promised to do, the truth which is the pattern for sound teaching and that he will help me guard that truth in my heart.