In the movie "Flash of Genius," Dr. Kearns invents something we all take for granted today, the intermittent wiper blade back in the 1940s. Apparently, before this invention the driver of a car had to manually turn on the windshield wipers for every individual wipe. How the story goes is that he invented it, patented it, and wished to manufacture it; meanwhile, the Ford Motor Company also was working on a perfecting the same thing. When Dr. Kearns attempts to sell his product to Ford they ask to see the specs on his design and steal it. They drag him through more than a decade of hassle before they finally go to court. Kearns has to then defend himself, as no lawyer would take his case, before a judge and jury. He ends up winning the case and satisfying his need for the truth to be revealed. You see, he was offered money by Ford numerous times to try and get him to go away, but he was a man of ethics, principle, and integrity. To a man of this calibur, money was not important, what was important was the truth.
The same goes for Peter and John in Acts 4. A forty year old man who had been crippled from birth is miraculously healed in the name of Jesus, and they are arrested and brought before the Sanhedrin. In verse 21, they are threatened to keep silent on all this Jesus stuff under penalty of death. But Peter, an unschooled fisherman, steps forward and boldly says in verses 19-20, "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God. For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard." With this they are released... for the time being.
The truth is powerful...and God being pure truth is what makes Him allpowerful. We all want something to stand up for, why not God?
Ask yourself, is it better to be "right" in worlds eyes or to be right in God's? Choose your master.
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