Five Minute Friday - Witness

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One word. Five minutes to write about it. This is the idea behind Five Minute Friday and this is today's free-writing post.

can I get a witness

eyewitness account

reliable witness

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A truthful witness saves lives, but a false witness is deceitful.

~Proverbs 14:25~

 

I counted seven other statements in Proverbs that say basically the same thing. A faithful or truthful witness is so important. The laws given in Exodus were clear that bearing false witness - lying - was a sin, especially in what would be the equivalent of a court case. If someone was accused of wrongdoing, they could not be convicted or executed unless there were at least two witnesses. If a witness was false, deliberately trying to get their neighbor in trouble, the sentence for the liar was the punishment he was trying to bring on the neighbor. Being a trustworthy and reliable witness was obviously very important before we had fingerprinting, DNA testing, and time stamped security video. The word of reliable first-hand witnesses had to be trusted.

If we are to be reliable witnesses today, we must tell the truth about what have seen and heard. Not just if we are called to the stand in a court case. We must tell the truth about what we know about God and his Word. Our faithful testimony can save lives if we tell the truth about how we've been changed by Jesus. The truth about what the Bible says. The truth about the consequences of rejecting God. And our lives should line up with our words, backing up our word. Not that we have to be perfect, because we can't be, but we ought to live like we believe what we say we do. 

Every Christian must be convinced of his fundamental and vital duty of bearing witness to the truth in which he believes and the grace that has transformed him. ~Pope John XXIII

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

~Acts 1:8~

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about."

So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.

~Luke 2:15-18~

The shepherds were faithful witnesses. They told the truth about what they had seen and heard and how it lined up with what they had been told by the angel. I wonder how many lives were saved because the shepherds were faithful.

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(I must say that I think the songwriter could have made a much better choice than Samson as an example of being a witness!)

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This post is linked at Five Minute Friday for the word prompt "Witness".

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