A true test of the heart is at hand!

Initially I found it daunting to embrace the truth that the bible is not the word of God. Although I desire above all else to know truth and search for it continuously I found that acknowledging, embracing and then walking in this truth proved to be more challenging than I imagined. (Truth is suppose to set us free, right?)   

Let me explain. A man did not speak this truth to me. I didn’t hear a sermon, watch a video or a television show. I didn’t read an article.  It was revealed to me by the Holy Spirit as I sat alone in my home contemplating the words of John the beloved.  Honestly it was over a period of time because I refused to acknowledge the truth of what was being revealed. I had a struggle within my mind between what I had been taught and believed and what was being quietly made known.  I had great trepidation in not only embracing this revelation contrary to what I believed was truth but in comprehending what had been revealed and then communicating it. In part because I hadn’t heard anyone say what I now know was not only true but obvious. The bible is NOT the word of God.  Isn’t it Interesting, we all say we want God to reveal Himself to us, to lead us and guide us. However, when He does and it is not what we know or that which we have ever heard a man say before, the true test of our heart is at hand.

I have experienced therefore testify first hand the harm following man can cause. One of the many lies I believed was that God had put men and women as i.e, pastors, bishops etc, in His body for leadership, guidance and our protection. (I participated).  Therefore to be led by God without a man was absolutely foreign to me. As evidenced by my leariness in being led by God in that which I heard no other man say.  And yet I know that to be led by God without a man is and has been the will of God from the beginning of what we know of God, correct? However, regardless of what I said I knew and believed, I lived according to the traditions I was taught. Perhaps you do the same. This is one of the very reasons I present truth to you with hope that God Himself will reveal the validity of my words to you. I never want to shame, belittle or berate you for that which you don’t know, have yet to embrace or for that which has not been revealed to you.  This approach is also is new to me and taught to me by God and not man. I have learned that regardless of what men/women think, we do not have the power to make anyone receive truth. We can only share our testimony (that which we can testify to, as in a court of law) but God only can reveal Himself to us.

Consider this. The bible is written by men. It is documentation of various men and women and their lives on the earth. It chronicles their dreams, visions, prayers, wisdom, vanity, victories, defeats, triumphs, prophesies and promises. It describes humanity and deity. It records the fulfillment of every promise God gave to mankind in the person of Jesus Christ. From His birth to His death and resurrection. All for the purpose that we would believe. Yet, what we have learned to believe “in” is not the one He willed to reveal. Jesus. We believe, hope and have faith in the actual words that are written to reveal God. Not in God. In doing this, God revealed to me, that we have made the bible itself our god.

Jesus revealed Himself to people throughout the bible in a manner in which they could understand. He spoke to fishermen about fishing, farmers about farming, potters about clay and shepherds about sheep and barns and that which had meaning and relevance to them. Today because Jesus said He is the great Shepherd we learn about sheep so we can attempt to understand a scenario that is truly unfamiliar to us while failing to realize that Jesus reveals Himself to us continuously. However we fail to recognize and know Him because we have confined our minds to our knowledge through teachings of the scriptures.

Trust me when I say I understand the apprehension in accepting my words. Even though I know they ring true inside of you and they make sense to your mind. Acceptance would require actual individual and independent thought. Ex: If I were to believe this I would truly have to walk in faith of a God I do not see. I would truly have to be led by God’s Spirit and believe that He will guide me into truth. I would have to come into knowledge of this Jesus whom I say is my Lord. He would have to reveal Himself to me without a man/woman preaching or teaching me.

Just the thought of what I’m proposing is exhilarating and paralyzing at the same time. That we would 
know God. Each of us from the least of us to the greatness of us. No one having need to say to his brother, know the Lord.  Wow! I know, this truth has become my life. He has become my life. Someone said, be careful what you ask for. Well, I searched for truth and I have begun to find it. There have been times when I’ve wanted to ignore what I know and go sit in some building and go through all the antics I used to participate in. There is comfort in doing what you know. There is solace in the familiar. There is a perverse benefit in allowing someone else to be responsible for your journey. And there is a sense of power in numbers. Then I come to my senses and remind myself of the liberty God has given me in Him. And I remind myself of the bondage and uselessness in those practices. Regardless of how it may feel for a moment it fails to have the ability to produce what it can not, life. Life is only in Christ Jesus. I truly want to know and understand all that God has purposed for us in giving His Son Jesus. Don’t you?


Because of my own experiences with the teachings from men.  I remained silent for many years for fear of leading anyone astray. Not to mention the conflict of truth with the doctrines requiring submission  to some man so that I would not go astray. I considered so many that have gone on another way. Then I considered Jesus and decided to believe Him. Not only in my words but as He is in me, I am in Him, to walk and continue to be led by Him. To learn of Him as He reveals Himself. Truthfully the walk can be lonely but I am never alone. The Word Jesus abides in me.

I hope my words have stirred you to think and perhaps examine your own self. I encourage you to read the two previous blogs on this topic if you haven’t. I think you will find them helpful. You can also read or watch other blogs and you will clearly see the progression of my journey.  God is good and it is my joy and commission to share my knowledge of Him with you.