Wednesday... The truth has many sides to it.

King David writes in Psalm 40:5 (NLT), "O Lord, you have performed many wonders for us. Your plans for us are too numerous to list. You have no equal. If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds, I would never come to the end of them." So true. I have had this proven over and over in my years here on earth. God's truth can be trusted.

But then David's son, Solomon writes in Proverbs 10:3-5, "The Lord will not let the godly go hungry, but he refuses to satisfy the wicked. Lazy people are soon poor; hard workers get rich. A wise youth harvests in the summer, but one who sleeps during the harvest is a disgrace."

Our backyard here in the desert has a lot of greenery in it and we love it and most of it is watered without us having to do anything except pay the water bill. But we also have some pots of flowers that I go out and water each morning and each evening and they would die if I didn't do that. God has provided the beauty of the flowers but we have to take care of them. We have a part to play.

Now the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 2:11-12 says, "No one can know a person's thoughts except the person's spirit, and no one can know God's thoughts except God's own Spirit. And we have received God's Spirit (not the world's spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us."

Verses 14-16 says, "But people who aren't spiritual can't receive these truths from God's Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can't understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. Those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others. For, 'Who can know the Lord's thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him?' But we can understand these things for we have the mind of Christ." That is an amazing reality that so many who are Christ followers don't avail themselves.

There is so much that God wants to do for us and through us if we would only turn to him, reach out to him and listen to what his Word and his Spirit says to us. There is in all of this something that we must do. Yes, the truth has many side to it. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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