FEB 1

Matthew 12:39-41
Memorise Romans 3:4
“…one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”

The attack on the veracity (trustworthiness) of God’s Word first began in the Garden of Eden when Satan tempted Eve and has never stopped ever since. He cast doubt in her mind and sowed the seed of distrust in her heart against God by saying “yea, hath God said…?” (Genesis 3:1). The world was thrown into a state of spiritual darkness due to Adam’s disobedience from which it has yet to recover to this very day. Because of that pivotal event in the Garden of Eden, disbelief of God’s Word is the norm in today’s world. Doubts have been cast on every aspect of the Bible pertaining to issues such as creation, sin, Christ’s divinity and His resurrection… the list goes on.

Even the miracles recorded in the Bible have come under attack. Some claim that Moses did not part the Red Sea (strong winds and currents did), that the walls of Jericho collapsed due to resonating sound waves from people yelling (and God had nothing to do with this), or that Jesus did not really walk on water (rather, He did some nifty stone-stepping), and neither did He rise from the dead (He merely fainted and was wrongly presumed dead). Many others would believe that the universe came about from the “Big Bang” (and therefore not created from nothing by God), that all living things came to be through evolution (and not by God who created all things ‘after their kind’). This attitude of unbelief has eventually led to the attack on the perfect preservation of God’s Word. This is a master stroke on the part of Satan. Every single biblical doctrine can be attacked all at once by simply convincing people that God’s Word has mistakes because it has not been perfectly preserved through the ages.

Yet Jesus Himself affirms the validity of the supernatural in the Old Testament, when he used the example of Jonah being in the belly of the fish in today’s passage. He used this example as a means to describe his own death and resurrection, and also to rebuke the unbelief of the scribes and the Pharisees. Likewise there are many scholars today who claim to be religious experts, but are really no more than faithless critics of the Word of God. Believing God’s Word means to take every single thing that God has revealed to us in scripture as the absolute truth. God cannot and does not lie. Jesus said that every single jot and tittle shall not pass until all is fulfilled (Matthew 5:18), and this certainly applies to every single miracle found in the Bible as well as the perfect preservation of His Word.

Thought: God would not be God if He is not even capable of performing wondrous miracles or preserving His own Word.
Prayer: O Lord, I believe, help Thou mine unbelief.