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Good morning. It’s Wednesday, May 13th, aka Children of Fallen Patriots Day.

🥳 Congratulations on starting today with God, and thank you for letting us be a part of it.

📖 Verse Of The Day

— Luke 1:3

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🧠 Devotional

For us, the beginning of Luke’s Gospel (1:1–4) is four different verses, but in the original Greek it was actually one long verse, and not only that, it was one long sentence.

And here it is:

In Luke 1:1–4 (NIV), it says:

“Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,
just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.”

What this means is this. This one long sentence is Luke explaining why he’s even writing this in the first place.

He says others have written about these events based on eyewitnesses, people who were actually there and saw it happen. Then he says he personally looked into everything from the very beginning and decided to write it out clearly and in order.

And the reason he packs all of this into one long sentence is simple, so you can be certain it’s true.

That word “certainty” is the key. He’s not just trying to tell a story, he wants you to actually know that what you’ve been taught is solid and reliable, not something you have to guess about.

So even the way this is written, one long, intentional sentence, shows how serious and careful Luke is being right from the start.

This isn’t random storytelling, it’s researched and eyewitness-based.

And that matters, because it means what you believe isn’t built on something random or uncertain, it’s built on something that was carefully investigated so you could be sure of it.

So the point of today’s newsletter is this: Luke didn’t write his Gospel to be interesting, he wrote it so you could be certain of what you believe.