Find and Follow The Evidence

 SEARCHING FOR EVIDENCE

Whether it’s in TV dramas or on the evening news, we’ve all seen pictures of the lines of police as they conduct a search for evidence.  Every spot is observed.  Anything of interest is marked and photographed.

I love those TV dramas where one seemingly out of place little insignificant piece of evidence leads to the solving of the case. 

God wants us to search for truth and let what we find, even if it seems very insignificant or out of place to us initially, lead us to what is ultimate truth.

Remember these famous words from God:

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity.

Jeremiah 29:13-14

So thank You God, for Your promise that truth is not obscure and that if we will search for it today, we will find it.  Help us to give ourselves to actually searching for truth, not simply looking for things to back our own point of view.

You told us Jesus where the starting point is and we pray to start there.

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 14:6

We surrender our will and our lives into Your care, Loving God.  We put our faith and trust in the Lord Jesus who died for us and who has made a way for us to be in loving relationship with You.

And we thank You God that we don’t search for evidence of the truth on our own but You have so kindly made Your Holy Spirit available to us to help us.

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

John 16:13

Help us to pay attention to the truth, as You reveal it to us today.  Give us humility to let the truth speak to us, even if it turns some of our preconceptions on their head.  Amen

Let’s work hard to find and follow the evidence so we can live by truth today.