My daughter and I recently went for a couple of
days break into the Derbyshire Dales. As we set off the weather wasn't too bad
but as we went into Derbyshire Peak District it began to snow, then the sun
came out, then the snow stopped, then it snowed again, by the time we reached
our destination it was freezing cold and very windy, but the snow had stopped.
The hills on the horizon looked lovely covered in white. We were fortunate to
have a hot tub at our disposal, my daughter went in after we had had our
evening meal, and yes you guessed it, it snowed, so there she was enjoying her
hot tub whilst being snowed upon. It snowed in the night, but stopped before
morning, the next day we had rain, by the afternoon the sun was out and I
joined her in the hot tub. This being my first experience I wasn't sure about
sitting outside in a large wooden barrel of hot water, but I have to admit I
thoroughly enjoyed it.
I thought
about how the weather seemed not to be able to make its mind up as to what it
wanted to do, as Christians we shouldn't be changing our minds all the time
just because some new thing has come out and it appeals to our senses. We
should be standing for the truth no matter what man does or says. Paul warns us
about being blown about by every wind of doctrine.
Ephesians 4 :11-15
And He Himself gave some to be apostles,
some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the
equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body
of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge
of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the
fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and
fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in
the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in
love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom
the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies,
according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes
growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
If we
truly are followers of Jesus then it is only His Word that matters and not
mans, or man’s interpretation of it. There are plenty of false witnesses and
teachers who put their own ideas into God's Word, we shouldn't be adding to it,
or removing the things that don't fit the way we want to live. If we truly are
in Christ, then each and every day we should be more and more conformed to His
likeness and be willing to submit to His will, and stand for the truth.
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