LENTEN MEDITATION 12
For the Year of Our LORD, 2.17.2007
Thy word is true from the beginning:
and every one of thy righteous judgments
endureth for ever.
Psalm 119:160
HE Who+ tests the hearts and the reins (Ps. 7:9) is a righteous GOD… and all His+ works are done in Truth (Ps. 33:4).
Truth is the standard.
Truth is defined by what the Righteous LORD says it is.
It is HE+ Who establishes it.
Truth is not an option.
WOE… WOE… WOE to mankind who seeks to establish
his own standard of Truth.
Rich or poor, elite or common,
educated or unschooled,
high church or plain…
woe, woe, woe to that man, family, culture or organization who seeks to establish his/its own truth.
Woe to the ones who dare to mingle some of GOD’s Truth with their own standards.
Woe to those who twist the straight Word of GOD
into a reversal of what HE+ said.
Woe to those groups who use the Word of GOD
against itself, to pervert His+ Truth.
Woe… woe… woe to all who agree with such teachings.
Psalm 51 states clearly that The LORD is without blame when judgment hits. HE+ has done His+ part to school, to warn, to draw the human race unto HIMSELF+.
We have His+ written Word. We have The Word made Flesh, our Savior JESUS CHRIST. We have the examples of the martyrs and confessors of CHRIST all through the ages… including the Old Testament prophets who sealed their witness of TRUTH with their blood. We have the current martyrs and confessors in Africa, in China, in Indonesia, in the Middle East and all the places in between, should we have ears to hear.
Many countries which are over-run by heathens and pagans have had in centuries past the Christian witness, but have, en masse, rejected it for spiritual darkness. This is true for all nations within the circle of “western civilization,” also.
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight:
that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest,
and be clear when thou judgest.
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts:
and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
(Psalm 51: 4, 6)
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living GOD.
Hebrews 10:31
ALMIGHTY GOD, to Whom belong the issues from death, I beat my breast as did the publican of old who dared not raise his eyes but cried to THEE for mercy. Look upon me, O LORD, and have mercy too. LORD, I have stumbled along in my own carelessness so many times. So many times I have glanced across Thy Words and have not laid them to heart. I have, with my lack of seriousness, not cared to labor for truth in the inward man, thinking I could get by on knowledge instead of commitment.
Gracious Savior, help me to be more honest, more serious. Help me to lay Thy Words to heart. Help me to stop shielding my heart from truth in the inner man, but rather to allow Thy Words --- all of them--- to pierce my very being, my reins. Hear my cry, O LORD, so that I am not destroyed by my own doings.
These things I pray in the Life-giving name of The LORD JESUS CHRIST, the LAMB of GOD Who+ taketh away the sins of the world. Amen.
