This morning I got to wondering, What supreme truths or axioms must I affirm and build all my thinking around if I am going to grow as a person each day? Here’s what I think they are. I thought of five.
1. That God is thoroughly good and therefore worthy of my total self-sacrificial loyalty and devotion.
2. That God reveals himself through creation and in the Scriptures and then by appearing and living on earth in the person of his Son, Jesus Christ, who is his supreme self-revelation.
3. That Jesus created me for himself. He lived, taught, died, and rose again to have me as his intimate friend and then to manifest his loving helpfulness through me in time and for eternity.
4. That through his death on the cross Jesus completely overcame the world, the flesh, and the devil — he broke their compelling influence in my thoughts.
5. That in my human weakness I cannot make good on what Jesus has done for me. Therefore, when he went back to heaven he sent the Holy Spirit to empower me to be what he wants me to be and do anything he tells me to do.
