10 My Lord, all my longing is before You,
and my sighing is not hidden from You. Psalm 38 TLV – source
All that we long for and all the hurt we feel because our longings are yet unfulfilled — HE knows and HE cares!
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It is the nature of man to make gods of what we see. And so GOD said:
15“So be very watchful over your souls since you saw no form on the day that Adonai spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire, 16 so that you do not act corruptly and make for yourselves a graven image in the likeness of any figure—. . . Deuteronomy 4. TLV source
So, what are some of the ways you keep watch over your soul that you do not bow to little gods?
Oh!
Oh, my gosh! Or oh, my goodness! Or oh, my heavens! Or any of those ohs we might say especially here in the South. One of those ohs was my response this morning while reading Genesis 3:1-6. Go ahead read it for yourself and meet me back here. I’ll wait. Click!
Verse 6! Did you see it?! Did you see that Eve interpreted the value of the tree by what Satan said and not by what GOD said?
Is that important?
Is it important to you and me to interpret the trees (temptations), circumstances, events, questions, just life period by what GOD said, says? Or Satan?
Oh! This deserves, demands, is imperative that we consider well.
Protection
20 So look, you will be silent and powerless to speak until the day these things happen, since you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their time.” Luke TLV. — source
We have heard silence is golden and it often is I think. In the subject verse, I am helped and comforted to see it as protection. If you read the preceding verses, and you may do that by clicking the link source, you will find Zachariah’s encounter with Gabriel. He came to Zachariah with a message from GOD! How awesome is that?! But Zachariah didn’t believe. It has been my experience when I have stepped into unbelief, I say words that would be better left unsaid. Words I soon regret. Words that wound myself, others and even cause others to question My Father’s Kingdom Grace upon me.
How full of Grace was The Father here to Zachariah! To close his mouth so he would not wound others with his unbelief. I hope this insight encourages and blesses someone as it has me. The Father surely watches over His word to perform it! (Jeremiah 1:11-13)
The protection of silence! I pray for it to be applied to my lips for the good of my hearers when I am so foolish to disbelieve GOD.
