If your understanding is the standard, truth will always shift. It will expand or contract based on your perspective, your experiences, and your preferences. But if God’s Word is the standard, truth remains fixed. It doesn’t bend. It doesn’t adjust. It stands. And that’s exactly what we need.
As believers, there’s a subtle habit we fall into without realizing it. We hear something in Scripture, and before we submit to it, we evaluate it.
Does this make sense to me?
Do I agree with this?
Does this fit with how I see things?
It feels responsible. It feels thoughtful. But underneath it is a dangerous reversal.
We begin to act as if our understanding is the standard by which God’s Word is measured.
Scripture never gives us that role.
God’s Word is not true because we can fully explain it. It is not reliable because it aligns with our instincts. It is not authoritative because it fits neatly within our categories.
It is true because God has spoken.
The problem is not that we think. The problem is what we do with our thinking.
Instead of bringing our minds under the authority of Scripture, we often place Scripture under the authority of our minds. We sit in judgment over what God has said, deciding what feels reasonable, what seems fair, and what we are willing to accept.
That posture doesn’t lead to clarity. It leads to distortion.
Because the issue is not with God’s Word. The issue is with us.
Our understanding is limited. It is shaped by sin, influenced by culture, and often driven by preference. There are things God has revealed that will confront and even unsettle us. That should not be surprising. We are finite. He is not.
If everything about God made immediate sense to us, He would not be God.
This is where Scripture gives us a very different direction.
We are not called to filter God’s truth through our thinking. We are called to bring our thinking into submission to His truth.
“We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.”
—2 Corinthians 10:5
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