A
reminder for today
An
Aramean soldier, however, randomly shot an arrow at the Israelite troops and
hit the king of Israel between the joints of his armor. "Turn the horses
and get me out of here!" Ahab groaned to the driver of his chariot.
"I'm badly wounded!" (1 Kings 22:34)
King Ahad was shot and died beside the battle. His continuous
disobedience to God brought him to his end. You could almost say that he was arrogant
and that he followed his own direction instead of listening to God.
I don’t want to talk to you about Ahab’s arrogance,
instead I want to look at the image I have in my mind of this random arrow that
was shot towards the Israelite army that ended up killing Ahab. I think that
our lives are much like that. The enemy will fire a random arrow towards us and
sometimes it hits and sometimes it misses. It depends on the type of arrow and
what the intended damage is. You see the arrow could be guilt, desire, hatred,
anger, jealousy, envy, arrogance, pride, idolizing or pain.
Circumstances plays a vital role and how prepared we are
to face this blow towards us. Sometimes we will turn and run and bleed it out
as we watch from a distance and sometimes we will continue the battle even
though we are badly wounded. These arrows could also be shot using different
bows. These bows could be your friends, colleagues, family or a stranger. Sometimes
someone else’s bad mood causes them to react towards us and in that reaction
their words could trigger emotions on our side, thus their words become the
arrows that is used to bring us down.
Sometimes we shoot ourselves when we are down, sad,
selfish, irresponsible, proud and self-centred.
How do we survive these attacks and how do we make sure
it does not result in our end? My dear friend, Jesus is the answer to all and
everything the enemy can and will ever dish up. It is in our humble existence
and our faith in Jesus that we will overcome the worst of attacks. When you are
at your weakest, Jesus will make you stronger. It is in our reaction to these
attacks that we define our outcome. So if you take someone else’s outburst and
allow emotions to get the better of you, you will fall, but if you stop and
listen, and follow God’s voice you can turn circumstances around. You are
better than that, because in you lives an almighty God and He will not let you
fall.
My prayer for you for today is that you will know that
Jesus is the shield that protects you and He will not let you stand alone to
face this world. He will stand beside you and walk each step with you. Look up
and know God is above you, look at your side and know He is beside you and look
at your feet, because He is you foundation and finally look at your for in you
is He that made the universe, then realise that there is no place that the
enemy is able to get to you when you have accepted Jesus as your saviour.
Bring it on.
Have and awesome day dear friend of Jesus
Cheers
