Larry Timm

In today’s culture, there are so many opinions available, about every subject you can imagine. So many opinions given without the thought of should my opinion be given. We live in a day when free-speech is elevated and attacked all at the same time all by the same people. We have opinions that are built on the back of other peoples experience. We will take something someone else is done and promote it as our own experience. We will speak from a place of authority without the actual experiential knowledge. With all of these things being said, Truth is often lost in translation. The process of getting to truth is abandoned and now we’ve all become tabloid journalists, regurgitating what others have said and adding our own twist. So much so that we will almost fight to the death in order to be right. But we often forget what is right while trying to defend our rights. We will step on the rights of others because we’re so preoccupied trying to defend the few rights that directly impact our personal every day lives. Working towards this we often skew our view of others and create a dividing line that allows us to see people differently then we ought. Very similar to how a group of people could look at another group of people and have so much distain for them that they can justify mistreatment and taking their lives. It’s happened so often throughout history in different countries and our own. Sadly we often repeat what we don’t know. But like the Israelites, God gave them a standard with which to see them selves. And in that standard everyone was equal under God. That standard in the Old Testament was the law. Everyone was under that law and all of them were found unrighteous. That standard in the New Testament is Jesus, and under this standard everyone is found to be the same, righteous before God. The constant, there was a proper authority in a proper standard that everyone was able to be equal under.