Testing and the word of truth

But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. – 2 Corinthians 6.4-10

There are a lot of things we could have stopped and reflected on in this passage. We could have spent weeks here. I chose however to only pick out a few highlights.

One of these is the truth that we can find the way through our struggles is ‘by the word of truth.’

As I look back on our lives and the testings and struggles that we have been through and do go through I can look back and see that more often than not it was purely a matter of God’s word getting us through the trial. I can think of and recounts exactly what God gave me in His word the perfectly suited the trial I was in.

In the darkest days of ministry the Lord reminds us to ‘not be weary in well doing.’ In times of uncertainly and anxiety the Lord reminds us to ‘take no thought of tomorrow.’

God’s word is our place of comfort. It is where we need to run in times of fear and anxiety and distress. It is where we go when we don’t know where to go.

The word of truth is how we get by.