Author: Nathaniel Colt

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Read: Acts 17:11

There’s nothing quite like walking in your house and smelling homemade, freshly baked cookies! The smell fills the air, and you can almost taste the cookies before you even see them. Warm, homemade chocolate chip cookies are the best! However, there are some things that may mislead you into thinking chocolate chip cookies have been baked at home when they haven’t. Store-bought cookies warmed in a microwave may be especially deceptive but even a scented candle can produce a similar smell. Until you actually see and taste the homemade cookies for yourself, you don’t know for sure that they’re homemade!

This is similar to how the people in Berea were with God’s Word. They were eager and excited to listen to Paul’s message and learn more about God’s Word. However, they didn’t just accept what Paul and Silas said. They studied God’s Word for themselves to make sure that what Paul and Silas taught was truth. They didn’t want something fake. They wanted real truth!

There are many people who can teach us what God’s Word says: friends and family, pastors and leaders, and even great devotional books. However, it’s important for us to study, know, and experience God’s Word for ourselves so that we can make sure that what we are hearing lines up with the truth that is in God’s Word!

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Read: Isaiah 40:8; 1 Thessalonians 2:13

From creation long ago, God put the sun in place. Every day, the earth rotates on its axis making it so that we can see day and night because of the sun. There are times when the sky is cloudy and we are unable to see the sun but, we know that it is there and has been there from the creation. We trust that it is always working, and we know it is real.

When you trust God’s Word, you are putting your trust in God who does not change from day to day. He is truth. He has always been true and will always be true. His Word has always been and always will be trustworthy. It is always at work in those who believe. You can trust God’s Word. You can know that everything in His Word is true and is useful to draw you closer to Him and make you more like Jesus.

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Read: 2 Peter 1:20–21

There are many ways people can get a message from one place to another. They can write a letter, send a text or an email, make a phone call, or post on social media. If they wanted to be more creative, they could hire an airplane to write a message in the sky with smoke, send a carrier pigeon, or float a message in a bottle across the ocean! All these ways would work to send a message, and yet, that’s not how God chose to send us the Bible.

God chose to use special people called prophets to write a lot of the Bible. Think of these people as God’s special messengers. The Holy Spirit inspired them to write about His truth, giving them words that one day would be part of the Bible. Although each book of the Bible may show the writer’s personal style, the content is what God told the writers to record. Because they were writing and speaking from God, the things they wrote about actually happened. We can trust that the Bible is God’s Word and that every word of it is true!

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Read: Romans 3:4

Have you ever had someone tell a lie about a situation you were involved in? You knew what the truth was and tried to argue your side just as if you were pleading your case in court. Even while the other person was lying, you were going through your head trying to think of ways that you could prove the truth of what actually happened so you could win your case and others would know and believe the truth.

The Bible says that God will be proved right in what He says because God is true. God doesn’t make mistakes and He never lies. We can trust everything He says. His Word has been proven true over and over. It contains prophecies written over many years that have been fulfilled. Everything that Scripture says is true. No matter what anyone says, we can trust God’s Word.