If there’s one thing that history’s demonstrated time and again, it’s that just because something is accepted by the majority, just because it represents the prevailing wisdom of the day, doesn’t mean that it’s true or right. Majority support doesn’t magically transform a lie into truth.

In the mid-1800s, Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that doctors who washed their hands with antiseptics drastically reduced the number of deaths from childbed fever. But prevailing medical wisdom rejected germ theory.

His peers mocked him, clung to tradition, refused to change. Even Semmelweis himself, though he’d stumbled onto the truth, didn’t fully understand it. As rejection mounted, he became bitter and unstable, eventually dying in an asylum—ironically of sepsis.

Had the medical world embraced even a sliver of biblical wisdom—like Numbers 19 or Leviticus 15, where cleanliness laws reflect God’s care for physical hygiene—they could have spared countless lives, and Semmelweis his torment.

Still today, by far the majority reject God’s truth. Even Christians find some of what Jesus had to say inconvenient, unpalatable or both. And in this, the devil delights, finding his entry point to wreak havoc in our lives. Which is why Jesus said this to those who believed in Him:

John 8:31-32 “If you continue to accept and obey my teaching, you are really my followers. You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

The best defence, the only defence, against the untruths of our day, the lies of the devil himself, is truth. And if you fill your mind with God’s truth, you simply won’t have room for Satan’s lies.

That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.