Weekly Devotion - #36

Read: Job 13:13-22

I Understood Every Word- But What Did You Say?

In ministering to deaf people you learn quickly that there is a language difference. Just saying or signing English words does not mean it will be understood. One deaf lady said to a new signer, "I understood every sign but what did you say?" This has become a problem, in politics all the way to the pulpits. It seems it is difficult to clearly understand just what is being said and why. Our English Language can be very confusing. My wife is continually going to the beauty shop to get a permanent, but it is never permanent as she must go again and again. Our government wants handicapped people to clearly understand what is happening, so The Library of Congress spent $60,000 of our money last year to create Braille edition of Playboy magazine (The Index, The Buffalo News, March 20, 1997). Ron Fitzsimmons, one of the abortion movement's own lobbyists, courageously reported having pangs of conscience. He admitted that the justifications of partial-birth abortion were untrue --and that he had "lied through (his) teeth" to Ted Koppel and the Nightline television crew. "It is a form of killing. You're ending a life," he said. (New York Times, February 26, 1997). President Clinton said, "I came to understand that this is a rarely used procedure." Congressman Tom Coburn, a physician who has delivered more than 3,000 babies, said that there may be 40,000 to 50,000 Partial Birth Abortions per year, but no one really knows. They don't have to be reported.

There was a time when a man's word was his bond. A person would try to be true to his word. Now it seems you hear many words but don't understand what is being said. This has become a confused generation because truth has been lost. What is right and wrong, true and false, good and bad? How can you prove what is right?

The answer is simple. Put your trust in One who cannot lie. "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began" (Titus 1:2). You can depend upon the One who does not change, "For I am the Lord, I change not." In this changing world there is One who does not change. As the world was falling around Job he continued to trust God. Job said, "Though the Lord slay me, yet will I trust in him" (Job 13:15). [TGC]

THOT: God cannot lie.

TODAY: Look in the Bible for answers to life's questions.

This lesson is from  30 Heart Touching Devotions available from SWM.

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