A WORD TO THE WISE: Proverbs 28: 5

Proverbs 28: 5     Evil men do not understand justice,
But those who seek the Lord understand all.

Proverbs 28: 5. In old comic books, men became villains when they deliberately chose evil.  They even chose names that said so: Dr. Doom, Professor Evil, Mr. Sinister.

In the real world, the greatest evils are perpetuated by men and women who think that they’re the good guys.  The Nazis thought themselves chosen ones commissioned by the gods to fight the evil Jewish threat.  The men who crashed hijacked planes into the twin towers looked forward to a holy hero’s death.  The doctors who secretly injected healthy Black men with syphilis and took notes as the disease ravaged their bodies and the bodies of the wives they unknowingly infected did so in the name of science and the greater good.

They all thought their atrocities justified in comparison to the historical or hypothetical bad that had been or might be otherwise done.   Thus they rendered truth, justice, and the holy way relative to themselves.

When truth is what you perceive it to be, you can lie to yourself and call it revelation. 

When good and evil are relative to the prevailing culture or the individual then charisma becomes the people’s conscience and fame becomes the voice of their god. 

And so, little boys stand before judges for the most despicable crimes and they honestly don’t know why everybody’s trippin’ so hard over this.

When we look to yourself as the standard for ourselves then our eyes deceive us.  We don’t even realize that our right is/ our rights are wrong and that we have become villains who call ourselves by heroes’ names.

But those who seek the Lord look beyond themselves, beyond the selves of others’ selves. 

Those who seek the Lord look to the Word of God----ancient, prophetic, and eternal. 

The Bible convicts us all, most democratically declaring that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.  

The absolute fairness of God is manifest.  We are relieved of the burden of superiority because everybody needs a savior; everybody needs the same Savior.

There is none who does good, No, not one.

When we define justice for ourselves we just find how indefinitely evil we can be.

But when we turn God and seek first the His kingdom will and righteousness then we find all things finally adding up.

----- Anderson T. Graves II

Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is the pastor of Hall Memorial CME Church

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