Motives of physical survival and the promise of fame and fortune in the exposure of falsehood and scandal will nearly always outweigh the benefits of complicit silence.

The fatal error of one of Israel’s kings is still being replicated today.

A tribute to one of God’s champions who stood for truth without fear or compromise in the face of fierce opposition.

Only an all-knowing God, who understands the strengths, weaknesses, and character potential of every heart (I Kings 8:39), can be trusted to permit fallible mortals to experience weal, woe, and varied blendings thereof, proportioned in just the right manner so as to develop godly strength and thus bear wisely both the trials and the triumphs of life.