In today’s upside-down world it has become more obvious, even to people with relatively low levels of common sense, that we all need spiritual discernment to sort through society’s battle field, filled with land mines of deception.
As a young adult believer, I remember discovering some shocking truths in the Bible. The only reason they were shocking is because I somehow grew up assuming the older good people around me operated according to what’s true. After all, who but the depraved scoundrels of the world could possibly believe in lies?
This was the point where God’s Spirit made one Bible verse particularly impactful on how I began to think about things. It’s a familiar passage in Romans 12.
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