A Thought for the Day – 044 – An overview
Who can say, “I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin”? The
only ones who can know if they are without sin are those who have by faith
believed God. Those who are walking in His Righteousness; Proverbs 20:5-11 and
Romans 13:14.
Comments and challenges
Over
the weekend I can usually come up with lots of thoughts to write about. Then
comes Monday and do you think I can remember any of them. No, not one! Then I say,
why didn’t I write it down? Even a short note on the subject would help charge
the memory. What memory? I did write it down and now I do not know where the
note is or even what I wrote it on.
What
is our normal view of anger? Come on put your thinking cap on! Is anger a
little boil over something but keeping the mouth shut. Maybe you pray and
explain to God, “LORD help me, I am about to burst a bubble, shut that person
up for me” or how about this one… here comes the car behind you and he or she speedily
shifted to the slow speed lane to scurry around you; your mind flares in anger I’ll
hurry and button up the space ahead so they can’t get in front of me.
This
my friend is not anger, it is more like the uncontrolled tantrum of the child
in you; anger is uncontrolled RAGE and hopefully you avoid it. Notice Exodus
32:15-20. Moses has just been with the LORD God on Mount Sinai, the LORD God
had just fellowshipped with Moses over the giving of the LAW. Moses had watched
as God wrote on the tablets of stone. The stones were loaded with the Words of
God on both sides of two stones.
The
scripture says that Moses when he saw the golden calf that the Israelites made
that the anger of Moses became very hot (God explained to Moses what to expect
on his return to camp; Exodus 32:1-14, at the request of Moses; God relented,
but Moses burned in anger as he descended the mountain) and the work of God he
casts out of his hands and the stones broke to pieces. We can be under the
power of the Holy Spirit in one breath and under the power of emotional rage
the next. It is that quick.
We should
be aware that this first decent by Moses into the camp of Israelites, did not
bring the glory of God into the camp as it did the second time, read Exodus
35:29-33. The setting of the first presentation of the LAW is that Moses and
the Israelites failed. First with Moses who came from the meeting with God in a
countenance of anticipated anger who no doubt was processing in his mind what
he do if he found the people unprepared for his return. (Have you ever thought
similar thoughts as you approached home)?
For
me these passages speak volumes about absolute spirituality. We can and do seek
time with the LORD and yet in the recesses of our mind we are anticipating the (known
facts) that returning home will have with our little corner of world. When we
come away from the LORD’s presence and He has spoken all of His Words, we
return to our so called “real world” and immediately see that our anticipated
thoughts are worse than expected. Anger and then Rage takes over and the Words
of the LORD are broken.
Then
we go back to the LORD and He says… “Well Jesse; another fine mess you got
yourself into, here let’s do this again only this time clear your mind of those
secret thoughts so when you leave my presence your countenance will be that of
the fruit of My Spirit. Psalm 19:1-14 (especially verses 12-14) and Galatians 5:16-26
(especially verses 22-26).
Our
countenance often ends the story, before the story has time to be told.
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