Kindness and Truth shall Meet

“Kindness and truth shall meet; justice and peace shall kiss. Truth shall spring out of the earth, and justice shall look down from heaven.” Psalm 85:11-12

When the Psalmist wrote these words, it was in the form of prophecy. That prophecy has been fulfilled.  Saint Augustine explained: “What is truth? The Son of God. What is the earth? The flesh. Ask whence Christ has been born, and you will see that truth has sprung out of the earth ... truth has been born of the Virgin Mary”.

It is truly amazing that God allowed Himself to be at the mercy of man. My niece gave birth a few days ago. A baby that was formed in her womb, placed and nurtured there by God, is now outside her body. She showed us a video of her baby being bathed, and he was kicking and screaming till he was so red all over. And I was remembering how I could feel those same feet bumping against her tummy so hard! This baby came into the world surrounded by prayers and was lovingly awaited by so many.

So many awaited the coming of the Messiah as well. But they were expecting a liberator of a different kind, a soldier perhaps who would destroy the forces oppressing them. Instead God Himself came, in the form of a helpless baby! Who could have ever thought of this plan? God did, as only God could. How could He trustingly put Himself in our fumbling hands? Look at what happened! He was tortured and vilified and crucified! God obviously thinks differently and acts differently from man!  We can read in Isaiah 55:8-9, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways...As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Kindness and truth, justice and peace are His ways, but they are not man’s ways. 

So when we see fake news, injustice, hatred, discord, selfishness, know that man brought this down on man. But what we need to be sure of is that God will always be victorious. Just as Christ’s crucifixion won for us who love and obey Him a place in heaven, God will use the evil in this world to bring out the good in us and for us. God always has a plan, implausible perhaps, but He has a plan!