Friday, May 30, 2025
TRUTH OFTEN TRAVELS IN SMALLER
CROWDS
Ex 23:2
2 Thou shalt not follow a
multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many
to wrest judgment:
Consensus
is often viewed as confirmation that a selected path or belief system is right. How
could it be otherwise since so many agree? To hold an opposing opinion or
lifestyle proves that you are in error – doesn’t it? Well, not necessarily.
Some
youth,
especially in metropolitan cities, will gravitate to gangs because they lack a
strong family. The father is often absent, and the mother is overworked so no
one is left to provide nurture and guidance. These troubled people huddle
together and share a common aimlessness. I suppose it is more
comforting to wander with a companion than to drift along in solitude. Peer
pressure is a strong incentive to abandon reason.
The
Bible, in
many places, advises an adherence to truth. “Ye shall know the truth and the
ruth shall make you free.” (John 8:32). Unfortunately, the response was:” We be
Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest
thou, Ye shall be made free?” They agreed together to abandon the memory of
Egyptian slavery to declare that they had never been in bondage. This they did,
not because they forgot Egypt but to side with those who rejected Christ.
The word “decline,”
in our text, is the Hebrew word natah which means “to stretch or
spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral
deflection). Do not stretch the truth! Do not follow a belief system that is
illogical and unreasonable even though it may be ornate. Be
careful of the gang you run with. Cultivate loyalty to family and, above all,
adhere to truth – even if it means standing alone.
Eph 6:13
13 Wherefore take unto you the
whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and
having done all, to stand.
Dear Lord, help me to
thoroughly research the truth and, when I find it, let me stand – even if I must
stand alone. AMEN
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