"The steeper the mountain the better the view" Part 1

 

 

This is the 185^th letter:

 

Text for the day: Jeremiah 17:9 (New King James Version)

 

“The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; who can know it?”

 

Our Theme for the day: “The steeper the mountain the better the view” Part 1

 

Our Devotional

 

Summer has just past, and those living in the north western part of the world like me are trying to get all the sun light possible. We are living in the season of fall, known as the not so hot, or neither too cold part of the seasonal year. It is during this time of the year that people or committees are casting visions for the coming year. But we must always ask ourselves, am I speaking the truth. For instances, after a meeting for the wellbeing of home, the success of the business, the upward mobility of the school, or the expansion of the churches influence in the community is finish, you need another meeting to explain the first meeting. But the question is asked why? Why do most people feel like someone was holding out, or not telling the truth after a meeting? The answer can only be because in most meetings everyone is not converted.

Jesus words to Peter are fitting at this point, “When you are converted straighten the church”. An unconverted person can not straighten, but only try to outwit the guidelines of the family. Be it the home, business, school, or church. So what does it mean to “tell the truth”? In the days that I grow up in Bermuda, children understood the phrase always tell the truth. In those days children were careful never to utter a lie, and if they did they where shameful of it. In those days we had to memorize Bible text in school, (“Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, But those who deal truthfully are His delight,” Proverbs 12:22, NKJV). Later we learned that the same book that condemned verbal dishonesty also castigated non-verbal deception. A liar is one “who goes about with a corrupt mouth, who winks with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers, who plots evil with deceit in his heart” (Proverbs 6:12-14, NIV).

Those where good days that every word spoken you could rest your last dollar on it. In out text today Jeremiah reminds us that, “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; who can know it?” Absolute honesty: Is it necessary? As one reads through the Bible, it becomes evident that the Scriptures insist on total truthfulness and absolute honesty under all circumstances. John Murray states, “The Bible throughout requires veracity; we may never lie.” Augustine sent caution to those in his day saying, “Nor are we to suppose that there is any lie that is not a sin.” And Ellen White warns, “Falsehood and deception of every cast is sin against the God of truth and verity.”

Furthermore, truth-telling is not merely an external issue. The Bible says: “Deceit is in the heart” (Proverbs 12:20; cf. 6:14; 23:7). Jesus points out in the Sermon on the Mount that all sin really begins in the heart which is the mind before it finds expression in our acts.  (Matthew 5:21, 22, 27, 28). Therefore, as Bok rightly notes, deception is “that which is done with the intention to mislead” Thus, “an intention to deceive is what constitutes falsehood.” Today God is calling us to absolute honesty: because it is necessary for the uplifting of His name. May God help us to this end!!!

 

 

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This letter was written by Elder Kevin Santucci

 

 

Join us next time for another ray of sunshine from Garden Ministry when we shall look at, “The steeper the mountain the better the view” Part 2

 

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Today is a new day Father, so take us your children and mold us. We give you the will to fill us with your Holy Spirit, and use us. We give our life to you the potter’s hand. In Jesus name Amen.

 

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