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Chatting with Jesus

Friday, September 1, 2023

Lord, it’s not often I ask you to allow me to smack someone upside their head, but his comment revealed I still have too much carnality left in me.

A politician added the phrase “It’s the God honest truth” to the end of his comments. What hubris  to invoke your name to gaslight “his truth.” How I wanted to give him the opportunity to turn his other cheek.

Recently, while studying John 17, for some reason, verse 17 stood out: “Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth.” Now I know why.

Lord, send someone to instruct this politician about your “honest truth.”

He needs to know “you are being patient for his [Mr. Politician] sake. He [God]does not want anyone to be destroyed but wants everyone to repent” (2 Peter 3:9).

He needs to understand that Jesus, “the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost” (Luke 10:19), since we “all have sinned and fallen short of God’s standards” (Romans 3:23).

Mr. Politician, please know the dangers of indiscriminately throwing around God’s holy name. “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap” (Galatians 6:7)

Understand, Mr. Politician, God loves everyone. Regardless of what you may have done or are currently doing, his love is perfect and never-ending. He is abounding in love, slow to anger, quick to forgive (Psalm 103:8).

God desires a personal relationship with you, Mr. Politician. How much does God want this relationship with you? “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whosoever [Mr. Politician] believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

Forgive me, Lord. Help me pray for Mr. Politician to know “God honest truths”—and so will I.

Amen, Jesus.