Girdle Up!

Truth matters. Truth is what we stand on. And truth expressed in Scripture is called theology. You could say that theology is our ‘girdle’ - it holds us all together so we don’t pop out in all directions...a little untruth bulging out here, and a little untruth bulging out there. We are to have tight, taut truth. Girdled up.

Hold God’s word and His truth dear. Don’t make light of it; don’t carelessly toss it overboard when it comes up against the false teachings of this age and generation. God cared to communicate with us; He gave us His perspective. I believe the huge conflict of our day is an all out attack against truth, against doctrine, against theology. (You know - who needs it? - just love one another….) Not only is God dead in this modern age, but also His Word is obsolete - sadly even in the midst of much of the church of today.

Many books are written that carve away at various truths of the Bible. Genesis is attacked. Revelation is attacked. The sovereign all-knowing God of Scripture is pulled down to man-size and His foreknowledge is taken away. His ability to control the events of history is ridiculed, His rule is considered passive and reactive and under the influence and power of evil.

Yuk. That is not MY God. That is not the God revealed in the doctrinal truths of Holy Scripture. THAT God is a God of all-knowledge, fully Sovereign over all of history in all of its minute aspects, and THAT God is a God who has spoken Words of truth and has breathed them into The Book. Believe it and stand on it.

Without truth we flounder and flop around in confusion and ride the waves of pain and doubt up and down and all around. But WITH truth we stand - and although buffeted and wind tossed - we stand. Plant your feet firmly on God’s truth; that truth ‘forever settled in heaven.’

Be careful of the modern Christian literature of today - fiction and non-fiction. Be discerning. Hold it up against the light of God’s word and don’t play with books that mess around and twist important truths of Scripture. There are popular books spreading falsehoods about God and His Word out there that your spirit should recoil from. Run from man rearranging God’s eternal truths. Be alert and watchful - GUARD these precious truths. They are words of life to us.

(I & II Timothy)

“They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience.”

“…brought up in the truths of the faith...the good teaching that you have followed.”

“…the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.”

“Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them…”’

“If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, he is conceited and understands nothing.”

“Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge…”

“What you heard from me (Paul), keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you - guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.”

“…correctly handle the word of truth.”

“…from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness…”

“For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine…. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.”

So - GIRDLE UP my friends!