DEVO. 06.24.24
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32 NKJV)
- In John 8:32 is such a familiar scripture that many times we can quote it but we can also lose the significance of it.
- Just prior to this, in verse 31, Jesus says, “If you abide in My word [continually obeying My teachings and living in accordance with them, then] you are truly My disciples.”
- To abide means to dwell and to “hang out” and spend time with.
- Just like verse 31 says, “continually obeying My teachings and living in accordance with them”
- Jesus doesn’t want you to just know what His Word says, he wants you to live with it so that it gets in you!
- As His Word gets in you, you then will begin to live it!
- Once you test it out and live it out, you then will know it as truth.
- It’s Truth, through experience!
- No one can talk you out of that kind of truth with a lie!
- And if you notice, the NKJV says “Truth, makes you free.”
- Spending time with Truth makes you free!
- Dwelling and abiding in the truth of Gods Word, really makes you free!
- Truth re-shapes your thinking and then Truth re-shapes your behavior!
- Today, ask God to show you any lies that you may have believed and then replace every lie with the truth of Gods Word!
- His Word is “living and active.”
- Now act on the truth that you know.
- Have a great Monday!
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