Romans 10:17 Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
17 So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.
Think of all the things each of us heard as children and believed. Santa Claus. Chocolate milk coming from brown cows. A watermelon could grow inside you if you swallowed a watermelon seed. Stepping on a crack could break your mothers back.
As children we don’t have a real grasp of how the world works, so it was easy for us to be convinced of things that we now know are impossible.
In the same way, when we were newly saved believers we might have believed things that weren’t entirely true, but as we matured we learned to look for truth in the Bible, and to ignore some of the things that our culture claims about God. (Cleanliness is next to Godliness, God won’t give you more than you can handle, when one door closes another opens).
Since our faith comes from what is heard about Christ from the Bible, who do you rely on, so you know you’re HEARING things about God?
How do you know they are TRUE things that you’re hearing?
How can you ensure that the things you say about God are completely true?
And finally, what is one passage in scripture that revealed truth to you? If one doesn’t immediately spring to mind where do you think you should start to find something that will reveal truth that can affect your life right NOW in 2020?
