The Anointing

DEVOTION 1 JOHN THE ANOINTING 1 John 2:20-23 20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. 21 I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. 22 Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist — he denies the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also. NIV The Anointing of the Holy One is an all-powerful experience in the life of a believer. This anointing enables us to not only know the truth, but to have an understanding of it as well as having the power to live it. Although some people may want to discredit the Word of God, the Bible as simply a book written by men that contradicts itself, we know different. We know that every word in the Bible is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, correcting and rebuking. We know because we have the Holy Spirit who leads us into all truth. Those who are still unbelievers or who have been deceived by Satan into not believing in Jesus as the Christ are nothing more than liars. They do not have the truth in them, and we should not ever be influenced by their eloquent and persuasive arguments. There are those who claim to know the truth but refuse to accept that Jesus is not only the Christ, but that he is not God. Thomas was one of the first ones to get it right when he said, “My Lord and my God”. The schemes of the devil are so sly that it could be possible to get distracted from the truth and start to think maybe those people have some valid points. But we should not be moved from the truth, which has been revealed to us by the Holy Spirit. All faiths or belief systems which deny that Jesus is the Christ are not only lies, but they are, by the very Word of God, antichrists. We must stand fast in the truth we have been given, and stand up, speak up, declaring it as the one any only truth. We might get shunned from some social events, or not liked, or even hated, but are we to compromise the truth just to be friends with un-believers in hopes of them learning the truth? What does righteousness have on common with unrighteousness? What fellowship can light have with darkness? What do we have in common with them? What agreement can there be between God and idols? Yes, we need to declare the truth to them, but never accept their declaration of the lies. They even twist the truth, using it to substantiate their lies, but with the leading of the Spirit and his gift of discernment, we can hear the lie within the twist, for we have the Anointing.