Biblical Principles Daily Devotionals Day 104

Why I Believe What I Believe

Day 104

Biblical principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

Trust God’s Word and not the word of man. People close to you may try to convince you that the enemy does not include some people because they do not appear to be evil. The enemy is not the people but the wickedness and deceitfulness in their hearts that you cannot see but God does. Destroy the wicked no matter what others say. “Do right in the eyes of the LORD thy God,” not right in man’s eyes.

Deuteronomy 13:12-18, If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, ¹³Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; ¹⁴Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; ¹⁵Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. ¹⁶And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the Lord thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again. ¹⁷And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; ¹⁸When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical principle:

Stand for the truth of God’s word to fight the spiritual warfare.  Beware of becoming friends with the world.  Remember Satan is a deceiver, run everyone and everything through God’s word to make sure it is true.  Appearances are deceiving.

James 4:4, Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.