Timeless Truth 

   “Before the mountains were brought forth, or the earth and the world came into existence, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.” (Ps 90: 2) 

   It’s been over two thousand years since Christ was born and walked the earth.  In all those years nothing He taught, nothing He said has changed.  All was truth from before time began and will be true throughout eternity.

   Many try very hard to redefine the words and teachings of Jesus to more easily live in an evil society determined to reject and ignore His wisdom and His word.  How easily we slip into complacency rather than face confrontation for our faith, to “go along to get along.”

   We sometimes forget that nothing that God has said will ever change.  Our world is full of change, much of which is for the worse.  But to stand apart and refute the weakening of faith can be difficult.  Some will hate us, some will condemn us, some will persecute us for our faith.  Yet that is what we are called to do.

   For a few years of getting along in a sinful world we risk eternity without God.  To avoid conflict we bury our faith behind a smile and keep our mouth shut.  We see the evil and ignore it like the three monkeys who see no evil, speak no evil, and see no evil.  But that is the path to hell.  We were told very clearly, “…anyone who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.  Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” (Matt 10: 38 – 39).

   Finding our life in this world means turning from the truth; to embrace the lies and evil of Satan.  To know the hatred of this world is to know the hatred it had and still has for our Lord, Jesus Christ.  We must choose either the acceptance of the world or the acceptance of Christ.  We cannot have both.