When the Rod Lingers

When the Rod Lingers

The Rod that Lingers

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me. You will stretch out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies and Your hand will save me. Ps 138:7

Glory... as Psalms 125 helps us see that God always surround His own, those who trust and fear Him, but He still allows the presence and purpose of the wicked (the rod of wickedness) to keep His servants in a fallen world dependent upon Him. (Deuteronomy 28:47 ; 2 Chronicles 12) To keep us humble and from stretching out our hands to iniquity, so He can stretch out His hand and deliver us. Glory... O, the depths and manifold wisdom of God!

As Jesus said... the words I speak to you are spirit (breath) and life (blood) (John 6:63). As blood is life to our physical bodies (carries oxygen to all our organs and flesh) so is the word of God to the new man. It's life to the new man that finds it life in the Spirit of God making the word alive and able and active in them.

Simon Peter replied, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

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