Video of the Day: Clip from the 2019 movie “The Farewell”
Bible Verse of the Day:
The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him.2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. 3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity, Proverbs 11:1-3.
Biblical Connection:
A family keeps the truth of a grandmother’s cancer diagnosis from a Chinese American woman as she plans for a wedding. When this secret is finally revealed, the power of fear is their rationale for withholding her grandmother’s condition. To make matters worth, the family withholds this diagnosis from their grandmother, keeping her in the dark of her death sentence.
In the book Restoring the Foundations, coauthors Chester and Becky Kylstra refer to this act in the Farewell as an ungodly belief. King Solomon expounds upon this in today’s passage. Whenever parents withhold the truth from children, they run the risk of other adults influencing them. When Christians live their lives like an open book, integrity is established which serves as a guide in life.
Closing Song:
When I received knows of my father’s death last year, I was shocked, unable to speak clearly for a couple of hours. Despite this pain, my children were informed of this tragic news. May the lyrics of today’s song inspire you to walk in truth no matter how hard it may be.
by Jay Mankus
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