God's Word is sufficient

Within our culture is a wide range of sources that claim to give wisdom, guidance and instruction. Many sadly choose to look to daily horoscopes to give insight into what might happen that day and wisdom for how to live.

I read an article a while back that states: "NASA reveals you've had the wrong Zodiac sign all your life." Apparently, NASA quietly reminded the world that there are in fact 13 constellations in the original zodiac and not 12.

The article actually blames the ancient Babylonians, who 3,000 years ago decided to ignore the 13th constellation because they already had a 12-month calendar and didn't want to make everything complicated.

Now, NASA has officially recognized this new constellation and perhaps the whole entire calculation has shifted for what people's sign really is. The end of the article says, "Just give us a minute while we question everything we ever knew in life."

The premise of this article is calling into question what astrological advice people had been receiving their whole life and maybe it had all been wrong just because this extra sign had gone unrecognized.

In the Bible, the Lord has always commanded His people to listen to His very own Word and not astrology or any other false sources of wisdom. To look to Zodiac signs or any other source of direction is telling the Lord that His Word is not sufficient.

In our culture we are surrounded by many truth claims that offer to be a source of help to us. Knowing that the Bible is sufficient sets God's Word apart as our exclusive source for God's wisdom and God's instruction.

Many places in the Bible we are shown how God's Words are superior to worldly wisdom. In 1 Corinthians chapter one we see that the saving message of Jesus is foolishness to those who reject it.

Looking at verse 19, 1 Corinthians 1:19-21 "As the Scriptures say, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and discard the intelligence of the intelligent." So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish. Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe."

Every single source of truth comes down to either man's word or God's Word. The pathway to know the Lord and to be saved will never be through the wisdom of the world, or man's word. Instead, what is often rejected as foolishness is actually what can save us.

We do not need to seek out other sources to find His Words to us. What God has spoken to us through the Bible is sufficient, exactly what we need to hear and believe. This is the truth we can rest upon.