Seize the Moment – Day 304

Discernment in Today’s Information Age!

Hebrews 5

 

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, January 15.

 

There is more news and information available to people in today’s world than ever before. This requires of us to learn how to be discerning of what is good and evil.

 

The teaching in Hebrews 5:12-14 teaches us about this:

 

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

 

How do we grow in our ability to discern good and evil?

 

Developing and practicing discernment is a spiritual process led by the Holy Spirit, who uses the Word of God to cause you to become a person who knows the truth and who knows what is good.

 

This is an intentional process of study and application; it is the integration of our minds and hearts, doctrines and practices, private life and public life. Discernment is trained by constant practice.

 

Churches in the midst of this information age will not mature in faithfulness and grow in fruitfulness without each of us becoming discerning members of His body. We all are overwhelmed with dissident information and competing ideas and only those of us who choose obedience to Jesus Christ will ever become discerning of the things of God.

 

This is how we become wise! As Jesus taught us in Matthew 7:24, “Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.”

 

Seize the moment and build your house on the rock.
 
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