Devotional Guide
For the week of October 16, 2005
GODıS UNCHANGING WORD
How the Bible is a gyroscope
To Read: Job 37-39
To Know:
³Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. I have sworn an oath
and confirmed it, to observe thy righteous ordinances.ı² (Ps 119:105,106)
My job was to locate, lock on, and kill enemy aircraft thousands of feet in
the air and traveling at half a thousand miles an hour. My M.O.S. (military
occupational specialty) was guided missiles. We taught German soldiers to
maintain Nike Hercules surface to air missiles, our first line against an
air attack during the Cold War. We never missed. The secret to our success
was the gyroscope. Once the gyro was fixed on a point of reference it never
afterward varied. When the gyroscope fastened onto a known position the
missile could be steered to any other spot in space with precision.
The Bible claims to be the gyroscope of the soul. God gives us his word that
we might steer a course through life. We greet each day as new and therefore
unknown. Guidance will be impossible unless we have a fixed point of
reference. In a world where nothing is fixed, anything can happen. Any
direction could be right. Even if there were a right way to live we would
never know. All would be relative and truth would be whatever we wanted. In
such a world the human mind must eventually implode.
God is the reference point in the Bible. We are invited to steer a course by
starting with who God is and who he has created us to be. We may not
perfectly interpret the truth but we can be brought back on course if only
we will believe that the Bible is the truth.
To Read:
Saturday: Job 40-42
Sunday: Psalms 1-3
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