Light and Truth

Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your swelling! Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God. Psalm 43:3-4

I was in the living room one evening watching TV and had fallen asleep. When I woke up, I realized that I needed to get to bed so I turned off all the lights and the TV and headed for the bedroom. I know the house like the back of my hand

Reprinted with permission. Crawford Loritts is the Senior Pastor of Fellowship Bible Church in Roswell, GA. Log onto www.fbconline.org for more information on Fellowship Bible Church or on Dr. Loritts’ teaching ministry.

but I ran into a little bit of a problem. I had forgotten that my wife had moved a piece of furniture away from the wall in the kitchen and so I ran right into it. I stubbed my toe, knocked some things off this piece of furniture and made a lot of noise. I woke everyone up. My wife flipped on the lights, saw that it was me and said, “Crawford, what are you doing?” I was embarrassed. I thought I knew where I was going.

Are you sure that you know where you’re going? So many of us assume that we are headed in the right direction and that what we believe is true. Some of us think that it doesn’t matter what we believe, so we just believe anything. That seems to be the theme of our society’s politically correct culture. We’ve pushed away from moral absolutes and the fact that truth is truth. Our culture seems to think: It’s my truth and your truth. Let’s just hug each other and have a good time.

It does matter what we believe. Psalm 43:3 brings to the surface three implications about this. David writes, “Send out your light and your truth.” So, number one, God’s way and His truth are the only things that matter.

Secondly, God’s way and His truth are full of light and free of stumbling. You don’t have to assume that you know where you are going—just in case somebody moves the furniture in your life.

The third implication is that God’s way and His truth will take us to the right place. He says, “Bring me to your holy hill.” Is what you believe really a sure thing?

Don’t make assumptions about where you’re going. Submit to God’s way and let Him turn on the light so that you can see where you are going. If not, you’ll definitely run into that piece of furniture.