After reading this USA Today article by author Richard Wolf, regarding Judge Brett Kavanaugh's professed innocence, the above article heading is descriptive of Judge Kavanaugh's own description of what is actually taking place in the sixth paragraph of the above article:“This confirmation process has become a national disgrace,” Kavanaugh railed. "You have replaced advise and consent with search and destroy. "This is a circus!" he shouted, calling it a "grotesque, coordinated character assassination." He warned that "the consequences will extend long past my nomination."
Our Lord encountered a similar circus in the form of the condemning scribes and Pharisees in John 8:1-11, regarding the woman caught in an adulterous act. In essence, they were presenting themselves as being white as the pure driven snow, but their conscience condemned them (see here, here, here, and here). And Jesus, who knew their hearts and their hypocrisy (see here, here, and here (Matthew 9:4; 12:25; Mark 12:15; Luke 5:22; Luke 6:7-8; Luke 9:46-47; Luke 11:17) , stated:
“He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”
Beloved, how many of us (including those Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee who are questioning Judge Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford) are without sin and are thus able to throw the first stone? The Bible answers in Romans 3:23: "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Beloved, we've all sinned (yes, both men and women), whether it was thirty-six years ago, as in the case of Judge Kavanaugh, or thirty-six seconds ago. What we all need to do is to confess our sins and ask God to forgive us of those sins and to "cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:8-10). Then we all (including Judge Kavanaugh) can proceed to "go and sin no more" ...... successfully "pressing toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:13-15).
---Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets
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