Knowing the context of the Christians
during the time of Martin Luther, they were in a kind of situation where in the
church is struggling about the sacrament observance. For me, I know for sure that it’s not only Luther
who is questioning about those issues. Maybe
others though not satisfied with it, just didn’t have the courage to tell what
their feelings were. Others, on the
other hand, may also be having the same question but because they were enjoying
already the benefits of it, didn’t mind it anymore of whether its good or bad,
anyway for them the pope is on their side as they advocate what the pope
imposes.
Yet, not so with Martin because he had
indeed risen up to question the church about the matters of indulgence and
popes authority to forgive sins. The mode of the song for me serves as like a
motivation that no matter what happens, as long as we stand on the truth,
whether it will cause to even sacrifice our lives, we will not fail because
it’s God who backs us up. Now, to think
of it, our strength therefore comes not of our own but from God.
There are times that indeed it’s hard to
stand on the truth. A lot of times that
we are being tested on how firm will we stand on what is right. Honestly, I tend sometimes to compromise to
wrong doing for the sake of having peace with them, yet in the end resulted not
to good outcome. Whether we do good or bad, people always have something to
say. Thus, it’s better to just do what the Lord wants us to do.
He is our standard. People around may
have voices on our actions but they will never be a basis for right decision. The Bible is our authority as we live. For me, diligent deep devotion is a good
attitude for every Christians. Not only
that we read our Bible in a mere one, but now, verse by verse, we meditate it. With it, we can see and hear the voice of God
that will serve as our guide in a deeper sense.
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