Rejecting the World's New Standards

Psalm 119:125

I am your servant; give me discernment that I may understand your statutes.

Discernment is one of the greatest gifts that we receive from the Holy Spirit.  It is surely discernment that allows us to function properly in this out-of-control world that we live in.  Without discernment we cannot recognize what is true and what is false.  With the enemy working overtime to make what is right appear wrong and what is wrong to appear right, we must rely on the Holy Spirit to provide the understanding that we need to make good spiritual decisions.

It is by the grace of God, and not by our experiences in life, nor in any human teaching that we are able to understand the Word of God.   We have the necessary enlightenment of God's Word through our prayers, our study of the Scriptures and the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit.  It is in this manner that God allows us to discern the gradual shades of evil that are introduced into to our lives everyday by the media and the gullible public.

Do not be fooled.  We are all part of the gullible public.  We accept our small doses of re-written history and contrived teaching via the media until we wake up one day and we find that we have accepted things to be true that simply are not in accordance with God's Word.  Lord, please provide us with the clarity of mind to know Your truths.

Let us guard against believing the supposed truths that the world is trying to deceive us into accepting as the new standards.  Let us pray that we may see the truth through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and the reading of the Scriptures.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You for the gift of discernment that You provide through Your Holy Spirit.  We bless the name of Jesus who has given us victory over the evil that tries to change our understanding of Your truth.  We pray, Father, that Your Holy Spirit will fill us with the understanding and discernment that we need to walk according Your statutes.  May we seek Your truth daily.  As we serve You, may the world know us by our living testimony to Your ways.  We ask all these things in the name of the Word and the Truth, Jesus Christ.