The Lasso Of Truth
Wonder Woman carries a golden lasso of truth. Any enemy caught in the throw of her rope cannot tell a lie. My mama needed one of those. I was such a big, fat liar!
Wonder Woman loves Truth.
Wonder Woman is ever alive to the battle taking place around her. Hello????
She. Is. Not. Sleeping.
Though she might get her nails done once in a while, evil never takes her by surprise. She knows very well... "This is a war zone; people are being blown up, and they are dying. My own people."
My own.
That's the lassoes gift.
In a world that shouts, "Can't you just leave me alone?" In a world drugged by soaps and drama, violence and porn, cutting and suicide -- drugged to reality, to integrity and to relationships that are vulnerable and honest.
Wonder Woman is born into a world that is starving for connection. A skeletal ball of loneliness. Of isolation. Of addiction.
The lassoo of truth says, "Get to The Source, The Water, The Well, The Word."
But it also says... "You need a few Wonder Women to go through life with."
Oh and by the way... ""Love your enemy as yourself."
Only a woman who WONDERS at the love of a Father who sacrificed his own Son for her own STINKING sin can do this. Yes. "Everything is possible for one who believes." (Mark 9:23)
It's the funniest thing, but my father-in-law once told me a story about how he owned a rattlesnake ranch in Nevada. He told me they were pretty tough to rope, but with a lot of practice, he got pretty good at it over the years. He was such a convincing storyteller. I knew it wasn't true, but a part of me believed it could be true.
I thought of that today when I thought of sin. Of Satan- that old rotter. I thought of how much I would love to lassoo him with Wonder Woman's rope of truth just to...
hear him say it.
To get him up off his yellow belly just so I could...
watch him do it.
Bow his slimy knee and confess with his forked tongue...
"Jesus Christ is LORD!"
You see? Wonder Woman deeply desires to see the whole world love her King. She wants everyone to confess with their mouths that Jesus Christ is LORD, and this is why she never stops fighting for the people.
Her own people. Her own.
This lassoo of truth is part of Wonder Woman's arsenal. She's got to use it on herself, because she is acutely aware of the great problem of self deception. (She read the entire book of James, and Wonder Woman was so... so busted.) And, she's got to use it on her enemy. (You take those thoughts captive now, ya hear?)
Wonder Woman knows it is The Truth that sets her free. (John 8:32) She believes Jesus when He says..."I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me."
(John 14:6)
Wonder Woman holds the lassoo of Truth open in her lap every morning over coffee, and... did anyone else hear that crashing sound?
Lies falling like broken chains all around her...
Wonder Woman
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