A Mark For All Believers

668- Today's Prime Time Devo comes from 2Sa 22:25, “Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in His eyes. (2 Sam 22:25) Whenever we see that word “therefore,” we must always go back a couple of verses and see what the “therefore” is “there for.” David has just spoken of his God-given love for God and His Word. He “kept” it, that is, he treasured it. This treasuring of ALL of God's Word is a gift of grace from God and it is offered to all who believe the gospel and submit to Jesus as Lord and Savior. What once was either viewed by you and I as utter nonsense, or silly superstition, or a book that just contained some good moral lessons becomes real and absolute truth in our heart of hearts. This trust in God's Word and treasuring of it is an earmark of every child of God! Joh 8:47 "He who is of God hears God's words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God." 1Co 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, (The written word) for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 2Co 4:3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 1Jo 4:6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. God's people treasure all of God's Word! It comes with the territory. Even if we don't understand all of it (and we don't) we still look to it as the very words of God! By God's grace we believe that, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Tim 3:16,17)