KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Truth
AHAB, KING OF Israel, and Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, conspired together to go up and take Ramoth-Gilead in Syria...
When Jehoshaphat asked Ahab to "inquire of the Lord whether they should go up," Ahab immediately called upon his 400 "yes men" to rubber-stamp what he wanted to do. But the king of Judah asked if there was another prophet that they might call on. Ahab assured him that there was one other, but, he said, "I hate him because he never prophecies good concerning me." So, Micaiah was sent for. In effect, he was told to line up and encourage the king to go into battle. But Micaiah said, "As the Lord lives, whatever the Lord says to me, that I will speak" (1 Kgs. 22:14). Here is one man's devotion to truth! It mattered not what Ahab wanted to hear! It mattered not what 400 preachers said! Micaiah was devoted to the Word of God! What was Micaiah's reward for telling the truth? He was slapped in the face, put in prison, and fed nothing but bread and water.
THOUGHT: Micaiah would not "sell out" the truth. It would have been so convenient just to go along with the majority. Let Micaiah's example inspire us to be so devoted to truth that whatever the Lord says, that will we believe, speak, and live. (Clarence DeLoach, Jr.)
KneEmail: "...The word that God puts in my mouth, that I must speak." Num. 22:38b