About accepting the truth…
Psalm 15: 2 He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the
truth from his heart 3 and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong
and casts no slur on his fellowman, 4 who despises a vile man but honors those who fear
the Lord, who keeps his oath even when it hurts, 5 who lends his money without usury and
does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be
shaken. (NIV)
We do not have a lot of power. We are not all-powerful. Only a mad person would think
that he or she truly has real power. There are powerful people in the world. There are
people who control vast amounts of wealth. There are people who control vast industries
and who control the financial destinies of thousands of people. Yet, all the people who
have ever had power have died. Every person who ever walked the earth, whether powerful or
not, has died. Even Jesus, who was God made into man, died. We might lust for power but
when we come to grips with the truth, when we accept the truth, we see we truly have
little power. When we accept that we have little power, we are then free from the lust for
power. When we accept that we can never truly have power over death, that we cannot live
forever in this body, we can be humble. The lust for power has corrupted souls and
destroyed the lives of millions, yet the humble spirit, your humble spirit, can spread out
over the earth to uplift millions.
