Liberating truth

The Lord is serious about who we are in His sight. In 2 Kings we find a list of rulers who either did what was evil or what was pleasing in the Lord’s sight. When Josiah found the Book of Law, He destroyed pagan idols that were worshiped by Israel.  He rebuilt the temple of the Lord and rededicated himself and Israel to obey God whole-heartedly. Tearing his clothes, clothing in burlap, crying out in repentance; The Lord heard Josiah’s plea but even so His anger was not satisfied for He won’t share any glory among handmade gods from wood and metal that doesn’t live at all. He considers the shredded blood of innocents. 

The Lord knows our heart, even in the beginning we are always inclined to wickedness. This is true no matter how hard we evaluate and improve ourselves. But even greater is God’s mercy than His anger. He sent Jesus Christ to carry the punishment we deserve to have and nailed it on the cross. The Father hates to see the innocent blood crying out on earth for justice even since Abel’s genre. But the Son humbles himself in obedience for the greater purpose of restoration, taking the cup of bitter suffering. “Let your will be done not mine,” he drank the cup and finishes it by giving His life for us. That’s why people in exile found hope. Those who are bound in heavy labors of pleasing other people are set free. They no longer need to be afraid of what others may think because the grace of God liberated and gave their hearts a fresh start. The chain ball of false accusations no longer weight people’s neck. Those unsettled issues they tried burying are now brought to open so people may be set free. For the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, who enables men of God to rise up in defiance against evil, has hovered among the weakest servant. Once laid back, stripped of dignity and worth, commoner received strength in the sight of God through Jesus. The highest price is paid for our freedom so He enabled us to leave imprisonment.

But instead of yielding, people  rebelled. That’s why men can’t reproduce this peace. They ended up in corruption through futility of finding what they have ignored long ago.

Many people are trying to seek freedom in prison cell. These cells are of those cold bars that will demand your life inside an office, calculating values no one has ever held permanently stable.  Full of resentment and bitter complains they ask, “What’s the use doing these things if the work I considered most important has consumed all of me; worst yet, it ruined the ones whom I lived for?” Then at the point of turning back, they found no place to return because all is gone. Indeed freedom is very far for those who rejected Jesus Christ. Debaters tried the best intrigues, Scholars planned sabotage, and the earth underground refused inflicting decay so spirits everywhere bowed low. No one can kill the truth because He lives forever.

Christ is moving in our lives. He remains faithful, breathing a new morning in spite of whatever we are going through. And Yes – Jesus experienced the very pain we do best to carry alone. But if we would only load it off to Him, He is more than able to change it from sorrow to laughter, from brokenness to wholeness. Surrendering our life to Him produces the right standing available by faith. And only God can define who we are in His sight for he has no favorites.