As I walked around the lake yesterday, I thought I heard the sound of thunder. In Canada, in mid winter, thunder is not a sound you expect to hear. It certainly wasn't typical thunderstorm weather, the skies were clear and the temperature was still well below zero.

I shrugged it off and kept walking. A couple of minutes later, there it was again, the unmistakable clap of thunder. It wasn't an explosion and it wasn't a gunshot, it was thunder. One loud clap and it stopped again.

This time I listened intently, vigorously searching my brain for information about how thunder works. Was thunder possible in sub-zero temperatures? I didn't think so, but I wasn't sure. All I knew for sure was that I was certain I had heard thunder.

All was silent for a long time. I rounded a corner and once again heard thunder. Only it wasn't.

A front-end loader was busy dumping snow into a waiting truck and as the first load hit the empty truck bed it boomed. The way the sound echoed off the buildings and down the lake made it sound exactly like thunder. Another couple of minutes and I would never have solved the mystery because they were just finishing up the last truckload.

Even though I "knew" I heard thunder, I was wrong.

Sometimes our senses can deceive us. Sometimes, our emotions can deceive us. Even science can be wrong. We need to be very careful about using these things as standards of objective truth.

There is only one standard of truth, God's Word.

Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Psalm 25:4-5 NIV

Truth doesn't change.

At times it may not match up to our experience. Just because you don't feel God's presence doesn't mean He's not there.

When our emotions tell us that we don't need to pay attention to what the Bible is saying because we don't "like" a given passage, we need to rein in our emotions. Emotion has always been a poor evaluator of truth.

When the Word of God doesn't line up with our experience, or with our emotional state, we need to stick with the Word. We haven't experienced everything and our emotions will change.

Even in the world of science, truths can change. The world isn't flat, the speed of light has been exceeded in a lab, gravity can be overcome, and man can get airborne. Science is a wonderful tool for understanding some of the how of creation but it isn’t infallible.

In a constantly changing world, we need to anchor ourselves to the unchanging Word of truth. If something doesn't seem to line up with the Word, discard it and stick with God's Word.

Until next time, make sure that when you seek the truth, you look for it in the Bible.

Be blessed.

Hallelu Yah (Praise God)!

Kevin

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