Solomon's Window: Kentucky's Attorney General Daniel Cameron

It is a remarkable thing that two boats can sail in opposite directions in the same wind, they can go according to the steering skill of the pilot and not according to the prevailing wind; and in the same way a man can trim his sails and grasp hold of God’s order however much it costs him. 

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8

When it came to announcing the decision of the grand jury, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron chose the steering skill of the Pilot of Micah 6:8 over the prevailing winds of mob violence.  For having the courage to grasp and act on God's order for justice no matter how much it cost him, we should all be grateful.

All through the Bible the difference between God’s order and God’s permissive will is brought out. God’s permissive will is the things that are now, whether they are right or wrong. If we are looking for justice, we will come to the conclusion that God is the devil; and if the providential order of things today were God’s order, then that conclusion would be right. 

But if the order of things today is God’s permissive will, that is quite another matter. God’s order is no sin, no Satan, no wrong, no suffering, no pain, no death, no sickness and no limitation. God’s providential will is every one of these things—sin, sickness, death, the devil, you and me, and things as they are. 

God’s permissive will is the haphazard things that are on just now in which we have to fight and make character in, or else be damned by. We may kick and yell and protest and riot and say God is unjust, but we are all “in the soup.” 

It is no use saying things are not as they are; it is no use being amazed at the providential order of tyranny, it is there. In personal life and in national life God’s order is reached through pain, and never in any other way. Why it should be so is another matter, but that it is so is obvious. “. . . though He were a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered."

We have to get hold of God’s order in the midst of His permissive will. God is bringing many “sons and daughters” to glory. A son or daughter is more than a saved soul; a son or daughter is one who has been through the fight and stood the test and come out outstandingly worthy. 

The Bible attitude to things is absolutely powerful and vigorous - there is not the tiniest whine about it; there is no possibility of lying like a limp jellyfish on God’s providence, it is never allowed for a second. There is always a sting and a kick all through the Bible. 

When we see the providential order of tyranny, we should not be amazed at it. According to the Bible the explanation is that the basis of things is tragic; things have gone wrong and they can only be put right and brought into God’s order by the individual relationship of men and women. 

We find tyranny everywhere. Take it in a personal way—we all think we are the creatures of injustice. There never was a man who was not! Justice is an abstraction at the back of our heads. Justice as defined by Critical Race Theory is just such an abstraction. It is absurd to attempt to put these abstractions into practice in our actual practical lives.

Justice and righteousness originate from a personal God, and it is His presence and ruling that gives these abstractions their meaning. We say that God is just—where is the evidence of it? Jesus Christ taught, “...do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you”—where is the justice in that? The great lasting point is not an abstraction called justice, not a question of right or wrong, of goodness or badness, but a personal relationship to a personal God.  

There is a tyrannical order which runs all through life.  If we expect to see everything in the universe good and right and we find it is not, we either get fainthearted or become an activist in a man-centered Godless cause. 

Injustice and lust and rape and murder and crime and bestiality and grabbing are as thick as desert sand, and it is cowardly for us to say because things are as they are, therefore we must be carried away by the prevailing winds. Our Attorney General cannot afford to be a coward. 

If we get slopped over with the sentimental and emotional stories of today's social justice movements, we are not only unfit for life, but are of no use whatever to lay hold of God’s order in the midst of things as they are. 

If the Incarnation of Jesus Christ means anything to us, it means fight, either advance or retreat as guided by the Spirit of God. Some of us need to fight by retreating from the false spirituality of the Woke Church and the false narratives of Critical Race Theory.  We need to vigilantly beware of those things that are apt to lead us to a side eddy— the false spirituality of the Woke Church or the utter disrespectful show of contempt toward our president and those whom God has placed in authority over us - either or both of those will do it.

- Adapted from Oswald Chambers' The Shade of His Hand