Truth wins
Speak the truth to each other; make truthful, just, and peaceable decisions within your gates. ~ Zechariah 8:16b (CEB)
Love does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:6 (NLT)
KEY THOUGHT:
God values truth, so ultimately truth wins.
PRAYER:
Thank you, God, for standing for truth. I allow myself to get so discouraged by the evil people of these times who have no regard for the truth. All they care about it spinning a story to make themselves look important. Help me to see how truth will win out. And help me to stand faithfully with Christ, who is truth embodied, so that justice and peace reigns. I'm going to start with the rejoicing now for what is a future certainty. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
