From Ordinary to Extraordinary
Devotion for Sunday , July 05, 2009 |
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From Ordinary to Extraordinary: A Yearlong Devotional to Discover What God Wants to Do with You by John MacArthur What do a tax collector, zealot, widow, and two
sisters have in common? They were ordinary people
who accomplished extraordinary things for God!
Profiling the Bible's most significant figures,
MacArthur's rich blend of teaching and inspiration
drawn from his best-selling books offers daily
encouragement as you strive to follow Christ.
Padded hardcover.
Used by permission. Adapted from From Ordinary to
Extraordinary, A Yearlong Devotional to Discover
What God Wants to Do with You by John MacArthur
(Thomas Nelson Publishers, Copyright 2009). |
THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUTH
My little children, let us not love in word or
in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
- I JOHN 3:18
Love did not nullify the apostle John's passion for truth. Rather, it gave him the balance he needed. He retained to the end of his life a deep and abiding love for God's truth. In fact, this zeal for truth shaped the way he wrote. Of all the writers in the New Testament, he is the most black and white in his thinking. He thought and wrote in absolutes with very few gray areas in his teaching. He divided the world into two categories: Light and darkness, truth and lies, life and death, love and fear, children of God and children of Satan. He understood the need to present truth using clear lines of distinction.
Love need not compromise truth. We often try to "love" people by hiding or disguising difficult truths, but this isn't necessary. Love and truth are never enemies; they must always go together. Love without truth is deception; truth without love is a weapon.
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