Feb | 06 | Of Pits, Pillars, Proclamations & Dripping Pomegranates

Key Word:- BELIEVE

Title:- Of Pits, Pillars, Proclamations & Dripping Pomegranates

Hebrews 3:19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

 
It was a terrible day when someone suggested to me that I was ‘addicted to failure’. Needless to say, at the time, I was quite hurt and just a little confused. Today however, the comment has become one of those things that have become valuable to me in hard times. When the going gets tough, I have begun to simply refuse to let go, to roll over, to bow down and to give up.

Sometimes manifesting themselves as a pain in the neck to other people, the two twins of persistence and tenacity are still great virtues to cultivate and like Jachin and Boaz, they are still great pillars of strength, adorning the temples of God! However, though they are both great and strong, in the face of spiritual obstacles, persistence and tenacity are unfortunately grossly inadequate in and of themselves. For tenacity and persistence to remain, for the immovable and upright presence of these two powerful twin pillars to continue, understand that these two need to have their foundations firmly fixed on the almighty and unshakeable, steps of belief! These twins cannot stand without the firm foundation of belief.

Now let me switch and mix my metaphors in mid stream, for I tell you, foundational belief is also like a great magnifying glass, taking the smallest of words and making them into a book of promises, taking the little canoe of a promise and turning it into a great ship of hope, taking a ship of hope and turning it into an all- advancing ark of the covenant, taking the ark itself and then turning it into a citadel of protection, taking the citadel and turning it into Zion, the Holy Hill of God! For it is only there, in Zions foundational hill, that our pillars of perstistence and tenacity stand tall and exhibit all their glory!

Allow me to switch and mix my metaphors again will you! For we can truly say, that persistence and tenacity will always stand firm and tall on the bedrock of belief because this kind of belief, is not some unrooted fantasy! No! For belief to be totally and eternally profitable, it must have a root and a focus and that focus must not be on the fantastic, but on the realistic! The root of this reality then, is God and His grace, is God and His goodness and this root, will produce rich bright fruit atop the twin pillars of persistence and tenacity, in the form of bulging pomegranates, full of joyous juice, dripping down the capitals of these mighty strengths. Persistence and tenacity will always produce squeezed- out joy in its season. Do you see that?

So today friends, believe! You must believe! Focus on God and not on yourself. Everything may be crashing down around you, even the mountains may seem to lean over and at any second threaten to fall upon your little head and crush you! The seas, may right now be rocking and roaring you into a confused sickness so much so, that you fear that you might be sucked down to the cold dark depths of despondency and dismay, so much so, that even the pit of depression seems to rise around your shoulders like, as Winston Churchill called it, the old black dog, howling like a wolf outside the gates of your spirit, and all might seem lost and pointless……. “but God.” Friend, when these evil and unbelieving days come upon us, let us with tenacity and persistence, only focus fully on God!

Believe and focus also on the Grace of God. We rarely deserve to be helped, to be heard and to be healed. However, the gracious God will always turn His ears to the repentant; will always lay His mighty gaze on those who fear Him and will always extend His strong hands to those who reach out to Him. Friend, grace. Focus today on Grace!

Believe and focus also on the goodness of God. This is very important, for in the face of dreadful circumstance; betrayal, lack, loss, and even lunacy, believing on the goodness of God, is just the hardest thing to do! Let the fact of God’s goodness however, become the sharp edge of your sword of belief. When all is seemingly hopeless, irretrievable, and irreversible, take up your sword of belief and then with the sharpened edge of the goodness of God, slash through the bags of descending blackness until the dark clouds rain down grace and change condemning skies, to skies of utter cheerfulness, even of pomegranate dripping joy.

So, swing away friends, swing away and proclaim today your belief in God, and that His goodness and His grace in all its fullness, will, from the pomegranate pinnacle of your persistence and the terrific tops of all your tenacities, drip down joy upon you! You must start swinging the sword of belief with the sharpened edge of the goodness of God into the dark skies of your despondency today! Come on now! Never give in! 

Listen: - "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” Mark 9:23

Pray: - “Lord, I believe; You need to help my unbelief!” Help me to swing away dear Lord and break grace from your fat clouds of descending goodness. In Jesus name I pray, amen. (from Mark 9:24)