I love how much just one chapter of the Bible can say! Old or New Testament, I am always so awestruck by the clarity of God's voice throughout scripture speaking not just universal truths to the human condition, but also so many personal notes of love.
He leads me to passages like this, that I would never think to go look up on my own but that He leads me to just when I need them. He's been speaking to people since ancient history about who He is and continues to say the same things to my own heart today - what a trippy thing to think about! The same voice, the same message, the same love, not just for the prophet Samuel or King David, but for me... Wow. But it doesn't stop there!
There aren't words. The author uses such vivid descriptions to show the power of God - the one who created this world and who truly holds all power over it. This furious power that could render our entire world into rubble with one brush of His hand and that wields the elements of our universe with such ease. Even the most solid and permanent things we have to look to in this world are wafts of smoke before Him and He is willing to move heaven and earth to be my protector. Every time that sinks in deeper, I realize how much I simply don't get it. I don't get how that can be - how He could care about me that much and why He would actually see fit to intervene in my daily life. I don't understand the greatness of His power or of His heart for me, much less His overwhelmingly strong desire for my good and for me to be with Him. All I can do is turn towards Him with what little understanding and offering I do have.
Him being my shield doesn't just stop at being my covering. When I stand up and hold on to Him as my protector and defender, He gives me so much more than respite and comfort in the hard times. He teaches me and trains me. He speaks to me and shows me mysteries about who He is, who I am, and of this world He has created. He put a sword in my hand and fills my heart with the seeds of heaven to see His kingdom come. To know where my strength comes from and see His perspective in every situation, no matter how seemingly dark; that is more real and more powerful than any ruse the enemy might try to show me. The truth is, I don't live in the power of sin anymore. Satan has no power over me anymore, so I don't need to fear him or buy into his version of 'reality;' I am one who is standing in eternity with my father and every step I take is in that authority and takes back ground for His kingdom. Even when that true reality has yet to become visible to the physical world, those are the spiritual physics going on behind the scenes and the warfare that He guides me through.
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