The Word of God

Where is the Word of God - Lord God, this world, it has so much that is competing for truth. In faith, there are so many different claims of what counts as salvation. It is hard for me to reconcile daily. I feel like I have peace what You are teaching me, but sometimes it is hard to get my thoughts out with others. But I appreciate the challenge as well God. But it remains hard to hear of so many with seemingly similar good intentions and yet they beat to an entirely different drum. Oh God, I thank you for the standard and authority you provide through Your word and how you speak through it. I thank you also for the authors that You have led me to read and study and learn from. Even Adam and Eve when after their own way instead of listening to Your word. And yet Lord, I see so many different interpretations of Your word and passages, almost like it gets twisted to say something we want it to say. Again Lord, it is hard to know what is right sometimes. I keep coming back to Love though. But help me to know whether I am denying your truths. Defining truth seems tricky. Lord, I am thankful for the great access I have to Your word that wasn't present early on till the printing press and people were dependent instead on certain people in the church to help them understand Your word. But, I am thankful for the time and place I am in now. I know I am to only depend on scripture and yet, often there are people that help me to understand this truth and I pray that I am listening to the right people. Lord, I sense a need to look at history and how others have interpreted these truths and not to believe in only those that have come along recently to say, "this is now it." Keep me at churches and under teaching that continue to speak the word of God and scripture alone. Keep me thinking about the messages that have been shared for the last 2,000 years repeatedly. Amen. 

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