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Sunday, October 2, 2011

form An Eventide Devotional

 Many of us, my friends, come from, or are a part of a domestic situation that is at best dysfunctional; or at worst, psychopathic. We seek God's help and strength, yet things stay the same, or get worse; and we wonder how we are to survive in our weaknesses and our vulnerabilities; even though we know it to be true that His strength is made perfect in our weakness. Yet our sense of isolation still sometimes overwhelms and overcomes us. Listen tonight to the words of another lamb of God from many centuries away, who faced a similar situation; and who found his answer in the everlasting covenent of Almighty God.


Although my house do not be so with God; yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow. 2 Samuel 23:5

GOD  comforts the cast-down, by bringing them to rest in the fullness and stability of His Covenant of Love. David was a man great in the Spirit and grace of Almighty God; a man after God's own heart, and yet he was deeply, deeply tried. You know, my friends, the greater the amount of precious ore which the refiner places in the furnace, the severer the test to which he subjects it. To some minds this seems like a mystery in God's conduct toward His lambs — why is it that the most glorious, and gifted saints have ever been the most tested and tried saints? However, my friends, this should be no mystery to God's lambs; did our Lord not say in His Word, "For unto whomsoever  much is given , of him shall be much required"? Yet, even in the deepest, and most heart - wrenching trials of our lives; do we know the loving and comforting graces of our Heavenly Father: see, my friends, how God comforted David, in the deepest trials which could ever wring a believing parent's heart. David had arranged, as he thought, for the best welfare of his family. Yet, God allows Satan to step in, and disarrange everything. Incest, treason, stalking, and murder are the psychopathic crimes which filled his domestic circle. His children made themselves vile, and he could not restrain them. What a cloud; what a stern and oppressive weight, was now resting upon the tabernacle of his soul. How bitter were the waters he was forced to drink. Yet, my friends, see, from his own words, in our Scripture reading tonight, how God comforted him to the end, through it all. "Although my house do not be so with God; yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure; for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although He makes it (his house) not to grow."

Believer, this covenant is equally yours. Our Heavenly Father has still the same individual interest in you, that He had in David. The "sure mercies" of  David are yours too, my friends, just as much as they were  those of the great psalmist and king of Israel.  In the midst of all your domestic trials — family changes — thwarted designs — blighted hopes -- the psychopathic attacks from those within your circle of expected love -- and the attacks of the stalkers, from within and from without; in the midst of all, will you remain, safely in the loving care of Yeshua; our risen Lord and Heavenly Father; as David himself cries out: "And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain."  Oh my friends, God has remade and renewed you into the everlasting covenant of our risen Christ, and you are now safely in His hands.  In this new life, this new walk; your whole history is recorded by Him who knows the end from the beginning. All the events of your life, all the steps of your journey, all your sorrows and your comforts, all your needs and your supplies, are ordained in that covenant which is loving and ordered in all things. Look around you, my friends; entrope; mutability, and death are constituent elements of everything temporal — it is almost as if the words, passing away, were written upon all of life's loveliest landscapes, and upon our heart's dearest treasures — Christ, and Christ alone, remains sure and unchangeable; all else; all else, is passing away. Knowing this truth then, my friends, I beseach you, let this covenant be your comfort and your stay, as it was for David. Let our risen Lord, Yeshua, be your anchor in the storm, your bow in the cloud, and the Light upon which God invites you to fix your believing eyes; and He will, as He did for David --and countless others throughout the ages -- provide all your salvation, and all your desire, according to His everlasting Covenant of Love; even though, perhaps, He makes not that your domestic comfort should grow as you would like, or once thought it would; or He does not remove you from the storm. Here, my friends, only here, is your protection, and your release from that cult - hive mind that threatens to engulf you.



"And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain."

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