Did the British backpacker Jamie Neale really get lost in the Australian outback and survive an unprecedented 12 days on wild kangaroo berries and ‘large sheets of bark’?
Did the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov really order the abduction and murder of a prominent human rights activist, Estemirova?
Did media baron, Rupert Murdoch, really know about the use of private detectives and phone tapping against Max Clifford, Alex Ferguson and members of the royal family?
Did Michael Jackson’s doctor really use Propofol to murder his pop legend employer?
Did the banks really expect to get away with paying out extravagant bonuses to its executives, despite having lost billions of pounds?
Did the media really hype the statistics regarding the swine flu pandemic?
Stories of secrets, lies and deception have filled the pages of our newspapers this week and they also fill the pages of our Bible reading this week. Jacob was born apparently biting at the heels of his hairy twin brother’s birthright, and his story fills dysfunctional families everywhere with hope.
From this ancestry comes Jesus Christ, who shows us a different way to live. Authenticity, integrity and honesty are those rare virtues that he models to us perfectly as the truth of God incarnate.
When we are tempted to be economical with the truth this week, let us turn in worship to our God who can never lie (see Numbers 23:19), who can work through liars and who can even redeem liars. Yes, really.
Krish Kandiah
http://krishk.wordpress.com/
Monday 20 July 2009
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