Hello, my name is Sochildixen. I share a personal story with a profound message in today's

encouragement from our daily bread. The truth never changes. When he was younger, my son Xavier and I read a fictional children's story about a boy

who rebelled against his teacher by referring to a pen by a made-up name. The student convinced

his fellow fifth graders to use the new name he created for pens.

News about the boy's replacement word spread throughout the whole town.

Eventually, people across the country changed the way they referred to pens,

simply because others accepted one boy's made-up reality

as a universal truth. Throughout history, flawed human beings have embraced ever-changing

versions of truth or personal preferred realities to suit their desires. However, the Bible

points to one truth, the one true God, and one way to salvation, the Messiah, through whom

the glory of the Lord will be revealed.

The prophet Isaiah affirmed that people, like all created things, are temporal, fallible, and unreliable.

He said in Isaiah 40, verse 8, the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God

endures forever. Isaiah's prophecy of the coming Messiah provides a dependable foundation,

a safe refuge, and a secured hope.

We can trust God's word because Jesus himself is the word.

Jesus is the truth who never changes.

Today's our daily bread devotional scripture reading is from Isaiah

40 verses 1 to 8.

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed,

that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.

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