Precious Truth

Psalm 141:6

"When their leaders are thrown from a cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.”

There will come a day when all will be revealed for what it is. Who you are is set; it is a condition of your heart that has already been determined by how much you are God’s. In this life, we can never expect to act or desire or receive reward for anything beyond the measure already determined by the condition of our hearts. One day, none of this crap is going to matter. All the testing and all the trials, all the challenges and all the distractions, all the temporal things and their pleasures will fade into nothingness and we will be left before God with nothing but who we are. In that day we will either be met with bitter tears and solemn regret or the joy of knowing that we did not shrink back – that we did not love our lives so much as to shrink from death. May it be that I live with such a perspective. Life daily is a fight to keep one’s head above the water of this world so that another breath of the truth might sustain him through the torrent of unrelenting waves into which we are dropped merely by having been born. But O, how precious that breath is! It is life itself, and it is worth every tear, every drop of sweat, every painful stroke and crashing blow to which we are subject. Despite what Satan, all those around us, and even our own instincts and inclinations tell us, it is enough to keep us until that day.