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‘When Truth Stumbles in the Street’ (Isaiah 59:14)

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The Prophet Isaiah

My friend and editor Susan this morning reminded me of a Bible verse that I didn’t recognize at first, because I’m used to the King James Version. Let me quote it from the KJV:

“And judgment is turned away backward and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.” In some other translations, we read “truth has stumbled in the street.”

If that doesn’t describe the trying and distressing time we’re living in today, I don’t know what does.

But we are called to be God’s servants, soldiers of the cross who follow Christ our king; and this we must do, in every way we can.

Sometimes it seems we can’t do much, if anything at all. Who are we, ordinary men and women, to oppose a vast, ungodly power structure?

We are servants of the Living God; that’s who. Like those who followed Joshua, and David, and the apostles. We have the shield of faith and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God (Ephesians 6:17). And we have God’s promise that Christ shall reign in Heaven and on earth.

God will not let truth lie fallen in the street and be trampled by the wicked. He will raise it up.

Pray for guidance, pray for courage, and for whatever else we need to follow Jesus.

‘Behold, the Mountain of the Lord’

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It’s been a while since I posted this glorious old Scottish hymn, Behold, the Mountain of the Lord (in Latter Days Shall Rise), sung here by Godfrey Birtill; but I felt a need for it this morning. Isaiah said they shall not hurt nor destroy in all God’s holy mountain. We long to see it rise.

By Request, ‘Jesus Paid It All’

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No question has ever troubled more Christians than, “Am I good enough to get into Heaven?” Have I been good enough? Have I done enough good works? What if you had to do 500 good works, and you could only manage 498? And so on.

Listen to the message of both Testaments of the Bible, from Isaiah to Paul: the bill has been already paid–paid by Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.

Just listen.

Can We Sink Any Lower Than This?

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How about a “children’s book” celebrating abortion? ( http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2015/03/childrens-book-about-abortion-my-sister-is-a-happy-ghost/#.VRVq_eFmrsY ) Yes, I think that’s something young children need to hear–if only to convince them their birth was a narrower escape than they may have thought.

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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil… Isaiah 5:20

Academics can no longer distinguish between good and evil: because in their world, bad ideas have no consequences. And so a character like Mary Walling Blackburn, professor of art at Southern Methodist University, has written a little number called Sister Apple, Sister Pig. It’s a jaunty little e-book about a little kid who knows his mother and father decided to kill–er, abort–terminate?–what sounds nice, here?–their first child, who would have been his sister. He’s all happy now because his sister is “a happy ghost” (I wonder how many “happy ghosts” Mao and Hitler made) and is not around to inconvenience the parents and make them “tired, and sad, and mad!”

Don’t forget, our “president” once called abortion the means by which “girls fulfill their dreams.”

Why are these people so completely comfortable with murdering their young?

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves. Isaiah 28:15

It’s bad enough that we have people like this living among us. But we also have them governing us, educating our children, running our courts, “entertaining” us, misreporting our news, and so on. Even an ostensibly Methodist university is not ashamed to employ a person who invents truly creepy apologies for abortion.

This is the sacrament of humanism. This is our human sacrifice to a false god.

I think our country’s in a lot of trouble.