Jun 10

Imagine: Even so-called gods of the world's religions shall be judged by God on his great day of judgment. This is a truth that does not sit well in a world where tolerance is supposed to rule. After all, should we not tolerate each individual's faith and each religion's teachings? How intolerant for the Christian faith to say that it is the only true view of God!

Yes, it is intolerant of other views. Truth is like that. Two plus two is always four, no matter what the noise and clamor of people to insist that we should accept the answer of five as being just as good.

This does not mean that we do not respect other people's right to believe differently. Even God does that. In fact, he gave us all the right to believe whatever we want. But he also reminds us that no matter what we believe reality is really like, reality is stronger than our beliefs about it. Reality is the basic ground of existence, not our beliefs about it. Reality is stronger than we are.

So we grant others the right to believe as they wish, for this is God's way. But it is also God's way to render final judgment on what we believe -- and he will. That is the message of Isaiah 28, and it is a message that will bring terror to some and seem strange and alien to a world that has believed the lie that there is no absolute truth and absolute reality and absolute God.

Scripture for today: Isaiah 28
Thought for today: Truth is absolute because God is truth and God is absolute.
Prayer for today: I praise you, God, for being truth that is absolute.

JUN 10