Marsha Deveaux Johnson
June 18, 2022
Matthew 15:8
“These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.”
I was amazed when I heard that Key government players/officials texted scriptures to one another during the hour of forced truth (Perjury penalty). I found it interesting that they comforted one another with God’s word as they sat and were forced to tell the truth to Americans.
God knows that truth is needed. God is exposing the truth. But what role did government officials play in the truth when they knowingly and wittingly knew truth and bartered it for ambition and power? They traded (and trade) righteousness for favor and current/future positions of power and wealth.
Do they somehow think that God is pleased because they attach a scripture to the righteousness that was thrust upon them by an invitation or subpoena? Is God (El Elyon=“God Most High”) really in their minds reduced to an idea/being that can be manipulated and used to bring glory to man? Is God so conveniently small (for them) that man now has usurped God’s righteous plan for truth to accommodate themselves? Is the truth to be bartered and held or released as it is convenient for gain? Has man finally outsmarted God? Does man manipulate, control, and lead blindly other men into lies and error?
How cheap are “righteous clothes” when they are forced to be worn!
No man is born righteous (Romans 3:23). No man achieves righteousness (on his own) (Isaiah 64:6), and no man has righteousness thrust (forced) (Revelation 22:17 )upon him. He must choose righteousness and become the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ (2nd Corinthians 5:21). This requires knowing and obeying God’s truth and word whether or not it is convenient for your personal or political agenda.
I weep for those who barter truth for gain because I know their end. They seek the living among the dead (Luke 24:5). Ambition, power, and money are dead treasures if you factor in eternity. These dead treasures have no life or existence in eternity. They are not the currency of God, heaven, or eternal life. What does God say? Elohim (Creator of all things) says, “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Mark 8:34-38)
A gestational plan was conceived, but not allowed by God to be birthed. God intervened and did not allow an illegally planned act to come forth. After all, He is in control of all things. We must remember that. Except for His grace and truth, unrighteousness would constantly prevail.
Thus, we pray (Luke 18:1). And we pray hard (James 5:16), without ceasing we pray (1st Thessalonians 5: 17-19), without growing weary we pray (1st Corinthians 15:58, Galatians 6:9). Truth be told, the effectual fervent prayers of the righteous are availing much (James 5:16). God loves and honors righteousness. Watch and see.
“I will break down and destroy
every alibi and excuse and lie of
unrighteousness. I am a God who loves righteousness.” (Rhema Word)
