Joshua 21:1-22:20
Luke 20:1-26
Psalm 89:1-13
Proverbs 13:15-16
Growing up I had to learn that just because I didn't like the answer didn't make it wrong . It was a difficult lesson to learn, and one I am now trying to pass on to my kids - preference does not determine correctness. Correctness determines correctness.
It's an important lesson, particularly when one sees how much influence the world could have on our children's thinking. There have been so many instances where people, helped by the media, in pursuit of a narrative, have so blatantly disregarded fact. And it is so deceptively easy to be caught in the flow of the popular thought, of the story one wants to be true, even when it is wrong. And sometimes the consequences can be pretty severe - just ask those who lost their property and livelihood in the aftermath of the whole "hands up, don't shoot" protests.
Today's New Testament reading illustrates how this thinking is not new. The chief priests, the elders questioning Jesus's authority knew exactly where Jesus was going with His answer - and they knew what was true...but rather than acknowledge the truth, they chose to deny they knew the answer, in order to preserve the narrative they so desperately wanted to keep intact.
Their insistence on the narrative led to consequences far more severe than those at Ferguson. Out Lord suffered and died. Thankfully, over two thousand years ago, God was in control, and truth won out. And whenever we feel frustrated or discouraged, whenever we worry about our children and the influence of the world, whenever it seems like the sin in the world is poised to carry the day, we can rest in the knowledge, the certainty our God is just as much in control today. And His truth will win out.
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