Thursday, October 19, 2023

Our Testimony

Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. John 3:11

Our testimony is of course just as Jesus said: speaking of what we know and bearing witness to what we have seen. In this age I have seen a great skepticism growing. A book comes out where a person has seen fantastic things and borne witness, putting their testimony out there for the skeptics and critics to savage without mercy. Near-death experiences have been dismissed en masse by one critic as 'heavenly tourism'. I would rather stay there I think, but I also cannot think of a better place to tour! Our testimony is a report of what we see and know, and Isaiah asked in 53:1,

Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

​The Lord gives some fantastic testimonies, and some are hard to believe at first. Does that mean we are to believe uncritically every wild testimony that comes along? No, of course not. But go first to the Word of God before scoffing at the bearer. There you will find such calm, mundane books as Daniel, Ezekiel, and the Revelation. Is the wild new testimony as far afield as disembodied hands writing on walls, wheels within wheels ridden by monsters (as the world might call them), and great red dragons spewing forth floods? Maybe that new testimony is not so unbelievable after all?

Remain in faith, Jesus may send a fantastic witness to you too!

Bucky

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