We May Stand

April 10

“The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand,” Proverbs 12:7.

Make no mistake about it, wickedness shall not be tolerated by the Holy One who inhabits eternity, the One who dwells in a high and holy place, Isaiah 57:15. We strut our hour upon the stage, as Shakespeare eloquently observed but when our part has been played and we exit the stage of life, there is a day of accounting that awaits us.

Numbers 32:23 states very emphatically, “…be sure your sin will find you out.” What we think we’re getting away with, what we think is justified, what the world may condone –all unrighteousness is a stench in the nostrils of God—and He wants no proximity to it (see Isaiah 65:5).

Apart from the salvation that Jesus supplies freely to man in his depravity and hopelessness, there is no hope for us because we have transgressed the law of God and no unrighteousness may dwell before Him. We may look good to one another. The “I’m OK; you’re OK” thinking is pervasive and we hardly recognize sin.

We certainly don’t call it sin. When men angle and connive for power and wealth; when governments impose their power over the God-ordained rights of men; when every manner of transgression is justified and extolled; when good is called evil and evil is called good, we know we are living in an age of delusion.

We are living in a surreal world where the only law that is upright and eternal has been pulled down and an artificial law conceived in the mind of the evil one and spoken by the tongue of man who embraces evil has been set up on high where foolish men bow before it.

If we will, we may receive the cleansing of the shed blood of Jesus; if we will, we may embrace the crucified Lord to our bosom as He draws us close to His heart of love. If we will, we may be washed, we may be made new, we may be born again…if we will, the evil day will have no power over us. If we will, we may dwell in His house of the righteous and we may stand.