| “All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal.” |
| —Psalm 119:160 |
For far too many months now, we’ve been smack in the middle of a political season as yet another political election looms on the horizon. Naturally, these kinds of seasons bring the politicians out of the woodwork spewing their carefully crafted and poll-tested rhetoric.
I don’t mean to come across quite as cynical as these written words may strike you, but I find it very difficult to trust people of the political class. The whole truth often seems elusive, bathed in a fog of spin and half-verified ideology. At least the whole truth seems decidedly missing from most political conversations.
I don’t know about you, but I really value “truth.” In fact, when someone tells me something that I later learn was a partial truth or an outright lie, I often become very frustrated. Certainly within the household of faith there is absolutely no place whatsoever for partial truths. In fact, one of the most dangerous problems to assail church leaders occurs when they drop a veil of secrecy over their activities, and bend what they declare as “truth” to fit some narrative they have agreed upon in advance that does not represent the entire, transparent truth.
The God who has called us to Himself before the foundation of the earth is One who always tells the truth. He does not lie. He does not bend the truth to fit some false narrative. He is Truth! The Psalmist confirms the truthfulness and power of God when he writes these words in Psalm 119:160:
All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal.
God is truth. And, we, His people, should always be people of truth. We should not lie. We should not bend or otherwise distort the truth. We should not spin the facts to support a false or deceptive narrative. We should rest on the reality of full transparency in all our dealings with each other and with the people who cross our pathway in the world.
Let us decide this day to speak the truth without hesitation, without spin, without any shading of the meaning. And, let us do so in love, extending mercy and grace to all with whom we communicate.
Based on a blog originally posted on Thursday, September 8, 2016
