Whispers of Truth

Sanctity of Human Life Sunday always makes me stop and think, and yesterday was no different in that regard, yet a difference for me was present. Due to my fresh reading of Jeremiah and Lamentations, the thought struck me that many of us in this generation as Christians have taken the same dangerous stance as Baruch did. Let me try to explain. Jeremiah had a scribe/secretary (probably a relative) named Baruch who wrote down his messages for him. Baruch diligently labored alongside Jeremiah and didn’t seem to quail at hard things Jeremiah asked of him; outwardly he was obedient to God and to the tasks given him by Jeremiah. Yet the Lord saw something else in him, his true heart, and offered in a very short chapter of Jeremiah a direct message for him. This chapter is a pause—God turns from speaking of calamity to the Jews and to the nations around them and speaking to Jeremiah to speaking to Baruch’s complaining, which God had heard, as he hears our complaints, whether petty or not.

Recently I was driving back from North Alabama and found myself listening to a public radio station in an area with few other radio stations available. The first sentence caught my attention and I listened in disbelief as the two men discussed searching for the stuff of life out there in the universe, for the place/thing that began it all. Their final takeaway was that one of Saturn’s moons held the best chance for discovering the origins of life. And as I sat and listened, I became sad that these men and so many others have chosen to reject the obvious (our Creator God of the Universe) only to believe and hope in something nebulous out there that might reveal where life came from. In delusion, they reject the only hope they have. In reading Isaiah, I found reference after reference to God as Creator and Sustainer. There is none like Him, as Isaiah relates in chapter 40:21-22: Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not