Right Truth

We are all born with a "knowing" of right and wrong. When I was a kid we had a long staircase leading to the second floor. It was a typical house of living space on the first floor and bedrooms and bathroom on the second floor. When I was about 4 years old and my brother about 2  years old, he stood at the top of the staircase and I pushed him down all the steps. Why I did this terrible thing I can't remember....other than I had a moment of delirium or something. What I do remember is running to hide after I pushed him. I knew I did wrong. Did I realize I could have hurt him permanently, I doubt it.....I was real small. My mom rushed to pick him up after the fall, but she never knew I did that until years later. I ended up confessing my terrible secret.

When we know right from wrong we can make good choices. As we grow we get more sneaky. We always have a bent to do the wrong thing and have to fight not to do it. I've done a lot of sneaky things in my time. I have struggles like anyone else.....but the Bible tells us that Paul did what he didn't want to do instead of what he knew was right. Even the Apostle Paul had struggles like me? That's good to know.

One way we can do more right than wrong things is to spend time in the Word. When we study doctrine we are studying about God Himself. (Doctrine = right truths about God). We study about Him so we can love Him. However our love for God is limited to our knowledge of Him. We can only love God as we know Him...... And if we don't know much about him we can't love him deeply.

When I first met my husband.....I didn't love him on the first date. We had to date more and spend time together before a love would grow. We would talk and learn about each other and as we did...my love for him grew. Getting to know people through relationships makes us love them even more. Tomorrow I'll go to work and meet a brand new person....or several. I will show them love and kindness  but to love them deeply won't happen until I spend more time with them. Loving someone in a deep way isn't instant.....it takes time and effort. It is the same with our God. We can say we love Him, but If we don't know much about Him, how can we love Him deeply? How could I love my husband deeply of I didn't know much about him? It is wrong of us not to know more about our Creator. Just as we are born with an instinct of right and wrong......we can know what's right and wrong about our view of God, by what we learn of Him, through His Word.

As our knowledge of God grows so does our love for others. This knowledge will change how you think and feel about God and people in general. We will be able to love people better as a result. Doctrine has truths that will lead us to deep love and fellowship with our God. If we are breathing,
we should desire to learn more about God......as we learn we will grow......as we grow, our love for
God will get deeper......and our love for people will be better and more Christlike.

Right doctrine leads to Right living.

1 John 4:8......whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.