BRINGING OUT THE OLD SPIRITUAL TOOLS AND WEAPONS
The other day at work we got to talking about sculpting, and I remembered
the falcon sculpture I started years ago. I still have the soapstone shape and
the rebar sculpting tools a friend made for me. I always loved the feel of
those tools. Tonight I picked one up, got my mallet down off the peg board and
cut away a few chips of soapstone. I remembered the feeling of apprehension,
then satisfaction as I chipped away at the stone. Then the Lord gave me a new
revelation I didn’t think of before: use a marker and draw the general shape of
where the wings will cup around the body and how far the tail feathers go out,
and draw this right on the stone. I decided to start using those wonderful
tools again. Our spiritual tools are like that.
We sometimes forget how useful and satisfying it is to rebuke
demons and make them flee, or to pray perfectly for a situation by praying in
tongues. Or what about getting down on our knees to pray like we did when we
were children? (When was the last time you did that?) Or what about the golden
rule of treating others as we would want to be treated? Or how about when you
decided to read the Bible cover to cover and God opened your eyes to so many
new amazing things?
There are some of those good Bible principles and/or weapons in
our arsenal that we may have forgotten about. Maybe it’s time to take inventory.
Just like God just gave me a new key to jumping back into my sculpture, He will
give us new revelations as we go back to revving up some of the old Bible
habits we had years ago.
In the Bible we see that God often urges His
people to remember the things of old, bringing them to mind again.
David has a great way of saying it in Psalm 77.
The whole chapter is beautiful, but here I want to show you verses 5 to 11:
“I have considered the days
of old, the years of ancient times. I call to remembrance my song in the
night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
“Will the Lord cast off forever?
And will he be favorable no more? Is his mercy clean gone forever? Doth
his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he
in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah [consider this carefully].
“And I said, ‘This is my
infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High. I
will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of
old.’”
David was having a hard time so he started to have a good heart-to-heart
talk with himself and he searched for an answer. He wondered if it was God’s
fault, or if it was God that had forsaken him. He deeply considered the
possibility. But then he woke up! “This is MY infirmity!” So David was his own
enemy. It wasn’t God at all. And when he realized it, he made himself remember
the good things God had taught him in the past. That was his answer and
sometimes it’s ours too.
Let’s take inventory and list some of the good things God showed
us or did for us in the past.
Let’s do some refreshing of our lives by sharpening our old
weapons and Bible tools that worked well and still do.
Love, Carolyn
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