Trash Over Truth

Trash Over Truth

Are you a Truth Rejector?  Let me ask this way: Do you choose trash over truth?  In Hosea 4:6, speaking to an apostate people, God made this startling declaration, “My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. ‘Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests.’”  

Just as in Hosea’s day, people today are ignorant of God’s Word and have become Truth Rejectors who choose trash over truth. Let me ask you, what is your personal relationship to the Bible? Do you read it? Do you study it? Do you try to live it? When we refuse to read, to study, and try to live God’s Word, we become Truth Rejectors, and just as God rejected the nation of Israel because of their spiritual ignorance, God will reject you and give you over to spiritual ignorance and its consequences. 

Always on the couch reading that unedifying novel? TRASH! Spending countless hours playing video games or watching TV? TRASH! Wasting time surfing the internet or on social media?  TRASH! Filling your time with unnecessary projects or hobbies? TRASH! Choosing trash over truth makes shallow people and leaves us with little and limited understanding of God and the Bible. 

Proverbs 29:18 tells us, “Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who gives heed to wisdom’s instruction.” Spurgeon understood this when he said, “Many books can inform you, but only the Bible can transform you” (Charles H. Spurgeon). Beloved, we need God’s revelation because without it, there is nothing to restrain us from sinning, and there is nothing to teach us how to live life pleasing to God. If this is you, today, I beg you, repent and return to God’s Word. Choose Truth over Trash! Read it! Study it!  Learn to love it, and God’s Word will adorn you with a life transformed and blessed by God.  

This is Laine Wilder for Carry the Light Ministries, bringing you Insights From an Elder.

by Laine Wilder

author of “Insights From an Elder” for

Carry the Light Ministries