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Friday, July 11,
2008
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Deuteronomy 28:13 And the LORD shall make
thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou
shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the
LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
(KJV)
Have you ever had a favorite team you
cheered for? How about these big cities that have their franchises, teams
that have been around for a long time and have a big following, ever notice
how fickle the fans are if the team starts losing? Oh boy, once they get on
a roll and make it to the finals then the fans come out of the woodwork and
jump back on the popular bandwagon again, acting like they never left. Well
if you notice in the above verse, team Christ is made the Head, in other
words they are always in first place and they never have to take a back
seat to anyone or any circumstance either. Do you always keep this in mind,
or are you acting like someone just kicked your tail end? The Lord made you
the head, He didn’t put you in last place nor are you last on His priority
list either. But He chose to die on your behalf even when you were a sinner
playing for the other team. Now that you are part of His team, how much
better is your life, knowing you are in first place and have the
opportunity to remain there as long as you are willing and obedient to His
word? The Bible says if God be for us then who can be against us. Would you
like to take on God and see how you fare? Well, many have throughout the
Bible and failed, miserably I might add. In fact weren’t you quite
miserable yourself before you knew the Lord, and were enemies and alienated
from the life of God by your carnal thinking? With this in mind, hopefully
a renewed one, why do so many of God’s people walk around acting like the
tail and not the Head, acting like they are in last place instead of first?
Matthew 10:29-31 Are not two sparrows
sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without
your Father. (30) But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. (31)
Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. (KJV)
Hey speaking of head, how many hairs did
you count on yours today? How about that sparrow that keeled over in your
back yard, were you aware of that? Our Father in heaven was aware of it,
just as He is aware of you and your need as well. So what was that hair
count this morning, or did you lose count? Yet with this in mind we still
doubt God or act like He doesn’t hear us or love us anymore, sounds rather
birdbrain don’t it? A God that feeds sparrows and keeps an accurate head
count of them is certainly not going to forget you is He? No, if fact your
value is much more than a birds, just like one of your children would have
more attention put on them then the birds in the backyard. So why all this
fretting and fussing when you can’t even count the hairs on your own head,
yet you have the audacity to doubt our Father in heaven? If you don’t like the
results in your life then maybe you best be checking the direction you’re
heading in and make sure it is the path our Lord intended for you to be on
and not some dead end you chose to follow.
Luke 12:24-26 Consider the ravens: for
they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God
feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? (25) And which of
you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? (26) If ye then
be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the
rest? (KJV)
You ever wonder how the leaven got into
the bread of life; subtly snuck in there when you weren’t looking or paying
attention to details? Again we see an example of the birds, this time
ravens which the word says God feeds them; did you ever stop and think
about that? Are you not of much more value than these fowls? Yet that is
how you act at times or think God sees you. Which of you being a parent
would feed the birds and starve your children? That would be criminal and insane,
yet that is how easy it is to drift off the path of life if one doesn’t
keep a watch on the heart and monitor the mind bringing every thought in
obedience to Christ. Consider the ravens; when is the last time you saw one
drop over from heart failure because the stock market took a dive or the
price of fuel just rose another ten cents a gallon? Are we not better than
these fowls, which is what is being asked in the above verses? In other
words, when you cast all your care upon the Lord then do you leave it with
Him letting Him do the caring for you? Or do you cast your cares upon the
Lord and then like a fisherman reel them back in and reevaluate them
thinking you can handle it yourself? Sound to simple, yeah that is the part
we miss though, that simplicity. You know instead of watching some hot shot
preacher on TV tell you how to live, and how much better you could live if
you show them the money, turn off the tube and look in the backyard and
consider what is around you, right in front of you, and how simple the Lord
would like us to live if we would only let Him be the Head of our life.
Matthew 11:28-30 Come unto me, all ye
that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (29) Take my
yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye
shall find rest unto your souls. (30) For my yoke is easy, and my burden is
light. (KJV)
Come unto me, get steered in the right
direction, go to the Head if you wish to be the head and remain in first
place. How did things get so complicated, how did you get weighed down with
so much burden and heaviness? Well it started ever so simple, so subtle,
just snuck right by you while you were looking elsewhere to find rest. Do
you remember where they put the yokes? Yup right around the neck which is
attached to the head. All this excess weight and baggage you have been
lugging around was it something our Lord asked you to carry, or is it
something the enemy packed on while you weren’t looking? The Lord’s burden
is easy; in fact it is light, otherwise He wouldn’t have said it. But that
only applies when you let Him have it and not try to carry the load
yourself. Ever hear of the two-headed monster, well that’s what happens to
people when they become yoked with something of this world, double minded
and unstable, unable to do what the Lord is asking because they are too
weighed down with the cares of this life. The yokes on you, now it would do
you good to make sure you put it on the Head and not the tail end or you
will end up with a big mess.
Hebrews 12:1-2 Wherefore seeing we also
are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run
with patience the race that is set before us, (2) Looking unto Jesus the author
and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured
the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the
throne of God. (KJV)
Remember what comes out of a cloud? Did
you know you are surrounded with a cloudburst, ready to rain down on you in
the form of living waters? Let’s get rid of all this excess baggage which
is a result of sin; sin being unbelief. Let’s start looking above to a man
that is seated at the right hand of God, the man being Jesus Christ who not
only authored but finished our faith, providing all that was needed so that
we could run this same course, the course that is heading home. A spiritual
race requires a spiritual leader, so why not follow one that ran this race
and is in first place; so will you be also and all those that follow His
lead.
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