Daily Devotion

April 15, 2006

Psa 119:121 KJV  I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.

Just like in King David’s day, we live in a time when justice and judgment are easily perverted.  In order to stay politically functional, today’s rulers and lawmakers have to be concerned about the polls.  There are also concerned about their legacy, their carrier, and in all these concers, the “righter” sense of justice as per God usually goes out the window because if ever brought out, they would be considered fanatical, or at the least politically incorrect. These rulers also need the support and backing of their political parties.  But when you have to please so many people in order to be accepted, you loose track of the truth, and in the matter of judgment and justice, it is pathetic.  Personal opinions also make for distortion of the truth in judgment as in order to find God’s opinion and /or will in any matter, one needs to have no opinion/will of his own, or at least be committed to rescind them.  

When we fight for our own truth or that of our peer-group, we put ourselves in our own hands.  We therefore need to build our own “armies”, our own protection, and our lives become dependant on our own strength.  But when one puts aside all human power struggles and completely yields to the truth and justice of God, then like Moses of old, one with the “club” of God’s word in his hand can inflict more damage to an empire than any full fledge army.

Is your fight for the truth of God?  Is your combat on the side of the justice and judgment of the Almighty Creator?  Then you need not to worry.  If you know that you are on the side of the justice and judgment of God, like King David, like Moses, like Elijah, like John the Baptist, like Jonathan and his armor-bearer, you can claim God’s protection and power, and challenge the “giants”-- the lies in your life, as well as the perverted judgment of this world.  The time would also fail me to bring up Martin Luther, John Bunyan, William Tyndale, who almost single-handedly conquered the minds of the people and politicians of their days with the truth of God, even though their lives were in constant danger and sometimes also in poverty.  Like them, you, on the side of the truth of God, are more than a match for all the lying armies of the ungodly.  

1Jo 4:4 KJV  Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.


Patrick Lumbroso
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