People today believe the concept of individual autonomy. Truth has been relegated to “whatever is true for me is true.” Because the possibility of absolute truth has been widely rejected, people now depend on “personal truth.” But we can’t make up for the loss of absolute truth by creating our own truth. We are simply wrong too often.

It may be easy to refrain from harming others, but it is much more difficult to take the initiative in doing something good for them. The Golden Rule is the foundation of active goodness and mercy—the kind of love God shows to us every day.

Jesus wants us to place our trust in God during trying times and to pray for deliverance from Satan (the evil one) and his deceit. Some of you have been through, what seemed to be the darkest times of your life and you have, perhaps, wondered where God was in all of it.

Is it a sin to have money? NO! Is it a sin to love money? Again, NO! Is it a sin to put money in a more important place in one’s life rather than God? Absolutely YES! So, how do we balance our need for God and our need for money?

It is amazing what one can see when the eyesight is restored. I wonder if that could be happening to us in the spiritual sense. Have we become blind to our spiritual apathy, etc.? Has it happened so slowly that we do not recognize it?

If a person is occupied with the things of God, the true Master, how will he care for his ordinary needs in life, such as food, clothing, and shelter? The Pharisees in their pursuit of material things had never learned to live by faith.