REVERSE THE CURSE
God set up certain laws of
the universe such as the laws of physics, gravity, the intricate laws of what
happens when certain chemicals are combined, laws of how our immune system
works, laws of nature, and laws that govern many different aspects of our
lives. In the first part of Deuteronomy 28, God tells us what happens if we
seek to do those things that bring about good results for our lives. But from
verse 15 to verse 68, He tells us about the curses of the law, which are the
things that can and do happen when we deliberately break His laws and the laws of
the universe.
We are familiar with the
law of gravity, for instance. If you jump off a cliff,
you’re going to fall. And yet, God is able and willing to reverse the curse of
gravity for His people. In 2 Kings 6: 4-6, we see this in action. The men were in Bible school
and wanted to build a place to live while they were learning from Elisha.
“They
cut down wood. But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the
water: and he cried, and said, ‘Alas, master! for it was borrowed.’ And the man
of God said, ‘Where fell it?’ And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a
stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.” You might want
to say that he put the stick into the water and scooped up the axe, but that’s
not it. The Bible says he “cast” it, and that word means he “flung” it in, or
he “hurled” it in.
In this situation,
gravity was a curse in that it took the iron axe head down to the bottom of the
water, and the man was devastated because he had borrowed the axe and wanted to
return it. But God Almighty reversed the curse for him. God stopped the law of
gravity entirely, and the axe head floated up to the top!
In
another Old Testament incident, God stopped the effect of poison.
“Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a
dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before
him: and he said unto his servant, ‘Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage
for the sons of the prophets.’
“And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and
found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and
shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
“So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to
pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, ‘O thou man
of God, there is death in the pot.’ And they could not eat thereof.
“But he said, ‘Then bring meal.’ And he cast it into
the pot; and he said, ‘Pour out for the people, that they may eat.’ And there
was no harm in the pot” (2 Kings 4: 38-41).
The nature
of poison is to kill, but when Elisha threw something in the pot, the poison
couldn’t do what it wanted to do. The curse of the poison was nullified.
There are
many other places in the Old Testament where God shows us that His love for
people goes far beyond the rules of natural laws.
Then God
sent Jesus onto the earth, and faith in Him was even more important than any
law. Galatians 3:13 tells us: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the
law.”
Jesus
came to reverse the curses. Jesus took on all the curses that would ever try to
hurt us, and He looked them in the face, and they ran. Philippians 2:10 tells us that: “At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth.” A virus is a thing; a
demon is a thing; poverty is a thing; Nanoparticles are things. All things must
bow to the name of Jesus Christ.
James 4:7 tells
us: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
God can reverse
the law of gravity and reverse the law of poison in a pot of stew and reverse
the law of a vicious snake bite (like with the Apostle Paul). God slowed the
sun down for one of the prophets and made time go backwards. God can reverse
the laws of nature and the laws of any man-made element anywhere, anytime, and
for anyone!
Do you believe in
God’s ability to reverse a curse for you? I do.
Love, Carolyn
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