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Weekly Devotional
Monday, June 26, 2006

Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

For centuries, the majority of humanity believed that the earth was flat. Suggest to any scholar of their day that it might be round, and they would adamantly inform you of your ignorance and possible insanity. You might be excommunicated from a church, you would certainly be talked down about, and you would have to defend your position to deafened ears. To entertain the notion that the earth was anything but flat would only invite ridicule and scorn.

So why might one suggest that the earth is round in the face of such hardship? Why would a person of good standing in that culture risk their reputation to make such a point? Because the earth wasn’t flat, nor has it ever been. This world has always been round, and even though thousands upon thousands of people thought differently for thousands of years, not once did it actually alter the shape of this planet.

It is comforting to know that Truth does not change based on our perception of it. Something isn’t true because a certain number of people believe it, because we can have a full understanding of it, or even because it feels right. It’s true because it’s constant. It never changes. It comes directly from the source of all things good and pure, and we can trust in God’s Word because God Himself is trustworthy.

Which is why Jesus made it crystal clear that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Only the power of Christ holds fast when all else has faded away. When friends vanish, feelings betray, and reason abandons, Truth will remain.

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