"Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?" (Job 40:8b)
These are the Words of the Triune God to Job. The NLT says, "....just to prove you are right."
I am telling you in certainty that the reason the "elites," the theologians, the academics, the cynical comedians, and, yes, any friends or family members who, "discredit," our Lord Jesus Christ, His Church and Kingdom do so for one reason and one reason only, "....just to prove [they] are right." There is absolutely no other reason. This is how humanity lives life, "....that you may be justified."
Repentance is you and I saying to our Lord Jesus, "I am wrong; You are right." If our "conversion" was not rooted in this confession, we need to reexamine our salvation. Every day there needs to be this strong belief that no matter what is going on in life, Jesus is right and the world is wrong. Our only "Rightness" is Jesus Christ, "Who of God is made to us Wisdom, and Righteousness, and Sanctification, and Redemption."
Father, in Jesus' Name, apart from You there is nothing right about me. Amen.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
