Devotional Guide
For the week of March 26, 2006
HARRY TRUMAN AND GOSPEL TRUTH
Justification
To read the Bible in one year, today Read: Zechariah 13,14
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 by 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 has been the building block of the
universe since its creation. It was, however, Trumanıs decision to drop the
bomb that made the nuclear age a fact of recorded history. President Truman
faced a thankless choice when the option was either to invade Japan and send
a million American citizen soldiers to their death, or immolate hundreds of
thousands of Japanese civilians. He could not save both. The President faced
a choice between the lesser of two evils. To do nothing was to do something.
He must either kill Americans to save Japanese civilians or kill civilians
to save American service men and women. His was a terrible choice to make.
We are sinners living in a sinful world. Often we must act when the choice
is 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 justify the
choices we make in life. Justification is by faith alone. 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, read,
Saturday: Malachi 1,2
Sunday: Malachi 3,4
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