08/14/2026
I’ve been thinking about how much weight these two verses carry when we put them together. 2 Timothy 3:16 says, “All Scripture is breathed out by God,” and Hebrews 6:18 says that “it is impossible for God to lie.” In other words, the Bible comes from God, and God is incapable of telling us something that is not true.
That ought to change the way we open our Bibles. We are listening to the God who has never been mistaken, never misunderstood what was happening, never made a promise He could not keep, and never had to go back and correct something He said. There has never been a moment when God spoke and later realized He got it wrong.
That matters because there are plenty of moments when life makes it hard to believe what God has said. We can read that He is faithful while walking through something that makes no sense, read that He is near while feeling completely alone, or read that He is working all things together for good while wondering how anything good could possibly come from what we are facing. In those moments, the question becomes very simple: are we going to trust what we can see right now, or are we going to trust the God who cannot lie?
And it matters just as much when the Bible tells us something we do not want to hear. Scripture does not only comfort us when we are hurting, it corrects us when we are wrong. It exposes things we have excused, challenges things we have accepted, and calls us to obedience when obedience is difficult. Sometimes the problem is not that we do not understand what God has said, it is that we understand it perfectly and wish He had said something else.
But if God cannot lie, then we can trust Him there too. We can trust that His commands are good, His warnings are loving, His promises are sure, and His way is better than ours, even when we do not immediately understand why.
That is why the Bible matters so much. We live in a world where almost everything feels uncertain. People change, opinions change, circumstances change, and our own feelings can change before the day is over. But God does not wake up tomorrow with a different version of the truth.
What He has said is true.
So when we do not know what to think, we go back to His Word. When our emotions are pulling us in every direction, we go back to His Word. When life does not make sense, we go back to His Word. Not because we will always find an easy answer, but because we know the One who spoke it.
And He cannot lie.
If we really believe that, then the Bible should be more than something we occasionally read for encouragement. It should be the place we keep returning to when we need to know what is true.