I'm looking at psalm 91! And contrasting it to what I've been taught.
"When you are doing Gods will, expect to be attacked and bashed and harassed by the devil!"
Yet, in reading psalm 91 " Yes, because God's your refuge, the High God your very own home, Evil can't get close to you, harm can't get through the door." This is a completely different message.
Another section says, " Fear nothing—not wild wolves in the night,not flying arrows in the day, Not disease that prowls through the darkness, not disaster that erupts at high noon. Even though others succumb all around drop like flies right and left,no harm will even graze you. You'll stand untouched, watch it all from a distance, watch the wicked turn into corpses."
So why the the teaching that if you do Gods will, you'll get attacked left and right? Is it a simple lack of understanding of who God is? Or is it something else? A way of discouraging stepping out in faith? A form of control? A distraction and a hinderance? A lie!?
Yet, it is preached by "Christians"! No wonder the church is confused and apathetic!
Essentially, the teaching is that if you step out and get "on the front line" you'll be pounced upon by every demon in existence. It also teaches that God is weak and unable to protect His own! Psalm 91 tells a completely different story. A biblical and truthful story - that if you abide in the shelter of the Most High - nothing can hurt you! "Stepping out" needs to happen when you are going where God wants you to go, and when He wants you to go there - otherwise "stepping out" is exactly that - stepping out from under Gods protection!
I know where I'd rather be...
May Gods blessings shower down upon you. And may you be coated in the dust of your Rabbi!
Australian Watcher On The Wall
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