THE VINDICATOR

December 8

THE VINDICATOR

Psalms 37:6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

A young man asked our Lord Jesus-Christ to provide a proof of His Messiahship through a miraculous sign Jesus had already done many miracles so He replied that the only sign that His generation would receive is the sign of the resurrection (Matthew 12:39).

As human beings, we have an innate perverted need to process with our own carnal senses and to understanding with our own mind before we allow ourselves to be convinced. In our carnality, we want physical and tangible evidence of God’s works in our life. Oh, silly men that we are; how could the elements of carnal understanding provide full evidence of the works of the Spirit in our life.

Jesus’ only vindication of His ministry to this young man was His resurrection by the Father. Jesus could then show that what he was doing wasn’t His work, but that the Father was with Him and He with the father.

Sometimes we doubt ourselves; sometimes others doubt us. Like with Jesus, the seeming death, and resurrection by the Lord, of our goals and ideals may be the only vindication that others and we will get as proof of God’s authorship of the hope that is in us (1 Peter 3:15). All will see then, and God will get the glory, because it will be obvious that we had nothing to do with it. .

We need to allow the Lord to vindicate us. We need to let Him bring forth our righteousness as the light and let Him be our judge in the heart of man. Fear is absent when we focus our hearts on our Lord and Master who did not answer up to the game of cynical scoffers (Luke 28:3,9), nor felt that He had to use His own powers to prove himself (Matthew 26:53).

The vindication of our righteousness is in the Lord only. We have no other. No wise argument of our own, no fancy works or accomplishments, no third party testimony can ever truly vindicate our soul to ourselves, nor to others.
As we truly trust Him, we cease to fear the judgments of carnal man. As the sun stands at noon at its highest in the sky, so will the Lord bring our judgment to be seen by all.

He is our vindication.

Psalms 18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.