Not Up For A Vote

God's Word is not up for a vote,
nor subject to popular opinion,
nor swayed by
      the prevailing winds of change.
Actually,
   through thousands of years,
it has not been very popular at all,
   even among God's people,
   maybe especially among God's people.
But it is still Truth.
People have twisted it
    to justify their own selfish ways,
abused it for personal power,
misquoted it to win arguments,
ignored it when convenient,
and tried to bury it as dead.
But God's Word always prevails.
His Truth emerges from the very ground
     even in the bleakest landscape
                 of man's deceit.
God's Word lasts forever.
That is what God intended all along.

The grass withers,
       the flower fades,
but the word of our God
    will stand forever.

                  Isaiah 40.8