True to the End

For Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips endure forever,
but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Revelation 22:15 lists those evil ones who are outside the gates of the holy city of New Jerusalem. The culmination is "everyone who loves and practices falsehood".

The proverbs generally look toward the blessings that come in this life for those who follow wisdom, and the certain doom that comes to those who go after folly. But that surely isn't the whole story, at the very least because the wise suffeer disaster and fools often find wealth.

Solomon does assure his son that there is a value to wisdom that exceeds the bounds of this life. Through speaking the truth in love, we grow up into the measure of Christ, the True and Living God, and participate in his life of Love. Through true confession of faith with our lips, we find a life that will endure forever.