Devotional Guide For the week of May 4, 2008
HARRY TRUMAN AND GOSPEL TRUTH
About saying yes or no
To read the Bible in one year, today read Psalms 108-110
To Know:
³Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under
the
law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held
accountable to God. For no human being will be justified in his sight by
the
works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.² (Rm.
3:19,20)
Harry S. Truman made the fateful decision that ushered in the nuclear age.
Nuclear power was not invented, it was discovered. The energy released
over
the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been the building blocks of the
universe from its creation. It was, however, Trumanıs decision to drop the
bomb that made the nuclear age a fact of history. President Truman faced a
thankless choice when the options were to send a million American citizen
soldiers to their death by invading Japan or consigning multiplied
thousands
of Japanese civilians to a holocaust. He could not save both. The
President
faced a choice between the lesser of two evils. To do nothing was, in
fact,
the decision to do something. He must either sacrifice Americans to save
Japanese civilians or civilians to save American lives. Truman faced a
terrible choice.
We sinners live in a sinful world. Often we must choose between the lesser
of two evils. Always, we must be willing to say no to ourselves and yes to
the will of God, but not always can we readily justify the choices we must
make in life. It is Christ alone who has it within his power to justify
all
those who put their faith in him.
To read the Bible in one year:
Saturday read: Psalms 111-113
Sunday read: Psalms 114-116
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