THE STRENGTH OF TRUTH

Psalms 119:121 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. To stay politically functional and even relevant, today’s rulers and lawmakers have to be concerned about the opinions of men in the polls. Because they are also concerned about their legacy and their carrier, the ‘righter’ sense of justice as per God’s standards usually goes out the window because if it is ever brought out, they would be considered fanatical, or at the least politically incorrect. Politicians also need the support and backing of their political parties and sponsors if they want to continue operating. The problem is that when we have to please so many people in order to be accepted, we loose track of the truth, and in the matter of judgment and justice, it is tragic. In this case, personal opinions create distortion of truth in judgment because in order to find God’s opinion and will in any matter, we need to deny our own, or at least be willing to rescind them.

When we fight for our own truth or that of our peer-group, we put ourselves in our own hands. We feel the need to build our own ‘army’, our own protection. Our lives become dependant on our own strength and efforts. On the other hand, when we put aside all human power struggles and completely yield to the truth and justice of God, like Moses of old, with the ‘clu’” of God’s word in our hand, we inflict more damage to an empire than any full fledge army would.

Let’s fight for the truth of God. May our combat be on the side of the justice and judgment of the Almighty Creator. We will then have no need to worry. Like King David, like Moses, like Elijah, like John the Baptist, like Jonathan and his armor-bearer, we will claim God’s protection and power, challenge the ‘giants’-- the lies in our life, as well as the perverted judgment of this world. Time would fial to depict the courage of 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 lived in poverty. Like them, we, on the side of the truth of God, are more than a match for all the lying armies of the ungodly.

1 John 4:4 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.