Let There Be

In addition to the rumblings of my own soul and spirit, a song I learned as a child is the inspiration for today's Victory Call.  The song is as follows:

LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH 

"Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.

Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be.

With God as our Father, brothers all are we, 

Let me walk with my brother, in perfect harmony.

Let peace begin with me, let this be the moment now.

With every step I take, let this be my solemn vow,

To take each moment and live each moment in peace, eternally.

Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me."1

(Words and Music by Jill Jackson and Sy Miller, Circa 1955)

Peace, however, is not what occupies my thinking today. It is truth. What if the song read, let there be TRUTH on earth? Would we be able to say that truth resides in us?

What is truth? From John 14 we know that Jesus Himself is truth.  In verse 6 Jesus responds to Thomas' question by telling him, "I am the way, the truth and the life..."

We are presently in a brand new year and where we are now in space and time none of us has ever been before.  It's all new.  My deepest, truest longing for myself and every follower/believer in Christ, is that we be marked by truth -His truth and no other truth.

So to paraphrase the song: Let there be truth on earth and let it begin with me. Let there be truth on earth, the truth that was meant to be. With God as our Father, sisters all are we.

Let us walk with each other in truth and let the moment we decide to do so be NOW and not later. With every step we take let us vow to BE ABOUT truth, taking and living each moment with eternity in view.

Begin now with yourself. Are you walking in truth...the TRUTH and the WAY...and the LIFE? If you are, glory to God!! If you are not, will you take the truth of John 3:16-18a, and meditate on it?  Will you allow it to speak life to you and save you from the lie that TRUTH in the perfect sense does not matter?  Jesus is the truth and, apart from Him, nothing else matters.

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. "He who believes in Him is not condemned..."

Selah...think on it...

Stephanie

1 http://synergy_2.tripod.com/lyrics/ponearth.html