As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
This is for my children as much as the Holy Ghost reminded me in March of this year of this Psalm several times, for what is coming.
I honestly have more problems with animals suffering, than being concerned about nuclear war, conventional war or any of this other Biblical stuff like Wormwood, because big events do not affect me directly. It is the personal things that I have to deal with in the Lord which bother me most.
We have been locked down for weeks due to blocked roads, yet in having experience this so many times, I really had my cabin fever episodes and none of that being shut up bothers me. A different prison bothers me in facing starving or sick animals, that I can not shut out of my mind.
Remember that when you are shut in, and someone is sick or dying for weeks. It is why people go nuts and suffocate with a wet pillow. They just can not take it anymore and are insane.
You can read the Psalm as it is comprehensive in the safety and the lifting up which God performs for His children. I have one point on the other side.
Psalm 37
3Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
4One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
5For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
6And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
7Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
9Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
10When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
11Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
It is the last verse which directs you to expect to be saved by God. To be of good courage, courage is what this is what you have in your heart, because you believe God will save you, so you are not cowering. You face this like a Protestant Christian, no matter who bad it is, no matter how sick inside you feel in a hopeless situation, there is a God, He is with you, and He will carry you through.
That is what I desires from my lessons in captivity that God taught me in having to feel what I believe, by experiencing the anguish. I have to have God in everything as prepping is not enough. God will deliver me THROUGH, not just out of bad situations. That is what it is saying above in GOD WILL STRENGTHEN YOUR HEART. There is nothing about your not going through the experience. This is about making you a more perfect Spiritual Light to Glorify God, not about you being the same stunted dwarf you were before all this took place.
For me the word WAIT is a strange word to use, and yet God utilizes that word. The root base is QAVAH and it has nothing to do with waiting, BUT THE KIND OF WAITING. Even "expecting" is not what QAVAH means which most English definitions attempt to convey. The word wait in this context from God, means.........MAKING SOMETHING WHICH WILL ENDURE ALL STRESS.
That is Spiritual Maturation. That is what God is always engaged in, in growing you by the Holy Ghost.
This "wait" is the complex method in beating fibers, breaking them down, pulling them, twisting them, beating them, smoothing them, until the product of little plant fibers or woolen hairs, bind together to form a yarn or rope, which will stand up to hurricane gales on a ship mast or pull a stuck truck out of the ditch.
This is not just being their in Hope. This is being there and maturing stronger every moment, of a Spiritual child being matured into an adult who will not stretch or give an inch, in the worst possible affliction.
This is even beyond that, as one of the definitions conveys as spider's web, again the many small strands form a web that will hold the largest of creatures an stand against the worst storms, always growing in the Body of Christ.
I. [קָוָה] verb wait for (probably originally twist, stretch, then of tension of enduring, waiting: Assyrian ‡ûû II, I. wait, ‡û, cord; Arabicbe strong,
strength, also strand of rope; Syriac
endure, remain, await,
threads, so ᵑ7 קַוִּין spider's threads, web); —
gather together, look, patiently, tarry, wait for, on, upon
A primitive root; to bind together (perhaps by twisting), i.e. Collect; (figuratively) to expect -- gather (together), look, patiently, tarry, wait (for, on, upon).
This is the kind of waiting the children of God will be delivered through. It is wonderful and the End Times is not about destruction alone. It is about the finishing touches on each Protestant Christian to be the Spiritual Rope which nothing will ever fray in the Lord Christ.
Nuff Said
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