Opinion

The Young County Republican party met in Graham on Oct. 13, 2020.

The word of God is filled with vast treasures and full of the brightest diamonds that enrich the soul and shine forth the glory of the Infinite God. Many of these great diamonds of truth are seen with the first glance of the eye and could never be overlooked by the Christian, but there are some that must be put into a background of utter darkness before the brilliance of its light is revealed to the human mind. In the midst of Job’s greatest suffering, as the tempest stirs up billows of horror that roll over his life like a mighty wave, Zophar, the miserable comforter, speaks into his life. But little does Zophar know that the deep truths he speaks concerning Job’s life will be the same truths that will condemn him before the Lord The Lord, the One Who conquered both sin and death knows false men, and He sees iniquity without investigating them; He will in no way let the guilty go unpunished.

I watched Jada Pinkett Smith sit down with her husband Will at the “red table,” a place that she has apparently designated as a spot for truth-telling. I had seen her at the red table before maybe about a year ago, and was struck by the strange vocabulary that she has adopted, ways of speaking that replace hard truths with euphemisms and phrases that smack of psychology textbooks, a veritable parade of self-esteem. She looked like a child, sitting there in her white chair with her legs folded up under her, relaxed as if she and Will were sitting together discussing a play they had seen last week.