The Way We Like it Doesn't Change the Truth

Retired Church of Uganda Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi said, "The moment you’re far away from your Bible and you are not making a difference with your Bible, then you are losing God’s wisdom to help you to walk righteously before Him."  

That is one source of the weakening of the church. Without the personal study of scripture with the Holy Spirit guiding us to truth, we rely more on experiences or teaching that makes us feel good without questioning whether they are Biblical. We rely more on what the latest best-selling author or charismatic pastor of a mega-church is saying without testing it against what God says, or we rely on social media to form our opinions and even our theology based on what is going around on X (formerly Twitter) or Facebook. 

Without the Bible to guide us, we are in danger of being lured into believing what God says is sin really isn’t, justifying it by saying scripture was misinterpreted, that it applied to a different people or time or circumstance and is irrelevant to us today, or that it isn't what God really meant.  We try to convince ourselves that if God really loves us that means he wants us to be happy even if it goes against his word. 

It sobers me because I know God is clear that not everyone who stands before him saying "Lord, Lord" will enter the kingdom of heaven. There will be no excuses, no debate anyone can give to convince Him that they are the exception to what He told us in his word.

We can spin it any way we want but as Orombi says, "the way you like it doesn’t change the truth that is in the Scripture."