Key Verse: Verse 160 – “Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Key Words: Thy word is true from the beginning
Some things we believe to be true. For example, the following is recorded in the Reader’s Digest book on Strange Stories.
“We still don’t know for sure. America’s best-known case of cannibalism involved the Donner Party, a California-bound wagon train of 82 souls that was snow-bound in the High Sierras during the 1846-47 winter. Less well known is the fact that they were led to their tragic fate by a lie told by Jim Bridger, the famed mountain man.
“Bridger owned a supply post along a new route known as the Hastings Cutoff, and he wanted the route used. He told the Donners it was a ‘fine, level road.’ They set out on July 31. By October – after struggling across the boulder-strewn terrain and trackless desert – they were snowed in. It was six months before help reached them. Thirty-three party members perished; many of the rest survived by eating the dead. Jacob Donner was eaten by his children. James Reed, the only leader who survived, later wrote that, at Bridger’s post, letters had been withheld advising, ‘by no means to go the Hastings Cutoff.’
“As certain as the tragedy seems to have occurred, modern-day anthropologists aren’t so convinced that the cannibalism ever happened. Using modern forensic methods to examine bone remains, some scientists now conclude that there’s no evidence to support cannibalism at the supposed campsite. The debate will likely rage on for some time to come.”
Now, while I personally believe the story of the “Donner party,” there is one thing I do know to be true, and that is God’s Word. We read in II Timothy 2:15, “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞ God’s Word is truth! Live it.
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