Manna Milling Moms

Jesus, the True Shepherd! His WORD!

We have a wonderful promise that should be at the top of our pile of promises that we stand on. 

Jesus said that He would lead and guide us into all Truth.  It is something only He can do. 

My husband and I have learned that we cannot drop everything and follow or learn everything from a man, an author, a speaker,  or even a sister or brother.  We acknowledge that God may in fact use these kinds of people throughout our lives to pastor or instruct, but ultimately, it is He, the Spirit of Truth, that is leading our families.

So many folks, and ourselves in the past, get so hungry for truth to counter the spiritual compromise and/or confusion we pick up along the way, that when we hear truth, our human nature wants to drop everything, and follow the human being that the Holy Spirit used to share it, thinking they are somehow more enlightened then anyone else.  This proves time and again to be a big mistake.  There is not one human being, enlightened as the may seem, that has all truth.  There is somewhere that they too are wrong,  somewhere that God still has to fix deep within them and lead them as well, because they, like us, are human.  And, if we are always looking horizontally, we will not only believe and accept the truth that they have, but the error or misconceptions they have as well.  We must be able to discern and acknowledge error, even in those we respect  and even love greatly.  Dont worry, though, much to contrary teachings that I have heard, discerning is not judging or condemning.  Discerning- and following that still small voice, is the method God has chosen to protect us from following anothers errors or misinterpretations.

Whenever God uses someone or something to bring a precious truth into our lives, we thank Him, and keep our eyes off of the person whom He used, and continue looking towards our True Shepherd.  In our NT salvation, He never said there would be one human person who was supposed to influence us constantly, rather, He said it was the Spirit of Truth, from above, that would lead us.  In this day and age, with the many slants, flavors, and winds of doctrine mingled throughout denominations and christianity as a whole, it is not only wise, but imperative, that we look UP, to our only True Shepherd.

Kim, the little sister