Let’s Talk: Your Opinion Or God’s Word?
Have you ever held your opinions up against God’s Word?
If not, what if you did right now—would they hold up?
This is something God has really been working on in me over the past year. There are so many things in the world to have an opinion on, and I used to base mine mostly on my feelings, my experiences, or even the opinions of others. But the closer I got to God and the more rooted I became in His Word, the more I realized that some of my opinions were… let’s just say they were giving world (as the young folks say—lol).
For example, some of what I believed didn’t align with what God says about sin—or with what He says about how precious life is, both inside and outside of the womb. Both are fully known and deeply valued by Him. One isn’t more important to God than the other. That truth challenged me.
So here’s something I want to encourage you to do:
Take a moment to make a list of the things you have strong opinions about. Then pray. Ask the Lord to give you clarity. Ask Him to show you His heart through Scripture, and to help you lay aside your own understanding and pride. Because here’s the thing: we can’t go into God’s Word looking for verses to back up our own views. That’s a fast track to twisting Scripture and misrepresenting God’s truth. And when we do that, we’re not being transformed by God’s Word—we’re trying to transform God’s Word to fit us. Big no.
We also can’t claim faith in Jesus and then separate that from how we see the world.Your belief in Christ should shape every part of your life—especially your mindset and worldview.
So today, I encourage you to not just read these verses—meditate on them. Let them check you. Let them shape you.
Romans 12:2
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
Colossians 2:6–8
“Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.”
