WOYWW: The Most Powerful Weapon in the World

Here is what I just finished: W is for ....

I made this for a sample for the papemelroti Artisan’s Workshop. We have a lot of letters for painting on and embellishing.

“The Spirit of truth will guide you to all truth.” John 16:3

“I’ve always thought that the most powerful weapon in the world was the bomb and that’s why I gave it to my people, but I’ve come to the conclusion that the most powerful weapon in the world is not the bomb but it’s the truth.” This was the statement released by Nobel Prize winner and International Humanist awardee Andrei Sakharov. He was the nuclear physicist responsible for the Soviet hydrogen bomb.Sakharov was eventually fired from his job and exiled because of his advocacy for human rights and his views against the arms race.

 The truth is the most powerful weapon in the world, and that’s why our enemies, both in heavenly realms and in the world, seek to destroy it. “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (Ephesians 6:12)

Ever since the very beginning, we read in Genesis how the serpent sought to deceive and beguile Adam and Eve. “Did God really say that?” he insinuated. He continues to deceive us today, more and more blatantly. If we listen to him, just as it happened in the Garden, we will be filled with shame, guilt, confusion, uncertainty, doubt, and stress. These do not come from God. Truth comes from God. If we know His truth, we will be free. (John 8:32)

Our very identity should come from God’s truth, that we are loved by Him, worth so much to Him, that He gave His only Son that we might have a glorious future with Him. “Did God really say that?” the enemy asks again and again in so many ways, until the world does not put any value on a human being, until a woman, a child is seen as an object and dispensable. 

God has a unique, wonderful plan and purpose for each one of us. “Did God really say that?” the enemy asks again and again, in so many ways, until the plan and purpose becomes shredded in humanistic thinking that dismisses belief in God to superstition and dogma. 

We need to know the truth or we will be deceived. God gave us the truth in the Bible. We need to read it, study it and see what a treasure we have in His Word. 

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