KISLEV 15
No Evil
“Because YOU have
made יהוה– My refuge,
the Most High – YOUR dwelling place, No evil befalls you, And a plague does not
come near your tent”
(Ps 91:9-10 ISR, emphasis mine)
As
we move with ever increasing acceleration toward the day of Messiah Yeshua’s
return, we can see clearly expanded, and
amplified, evil of every sort
exploding in the world around us. Sexual
perversions unimaginable, extreme violence that is now a common occurrence, as
well as the many natural disasters that are happening on a daily, almost hourly
schedule: all of this adds up. We find many warnings throughout the Word of
our Elohim of what will take place,
yet here, in this opening verse, we have a promise of protection and shelter from
anything that could, or would, come at us.
However, our Creator can do
very little until we first choose to
make Him our refuge, our habitation,
our permanent address through a relationship of close intimacy and obedience. In modern day terminology, this has become
known as recognizing and accepting our Creator, Father, and Elohim, and
embracing Yeshua of Nazareth as our Messiah and Redeemer. We then must choose to do teshuva,
repenting and forsaking (turning away from) our past life, followed by ‘walking
out’ the evidence (or fruit) of our new life by obedience to Yahweh’s divine
instructions in righteous and moral living, His Torah.
As
we proceed in this ‘walk’, we then,
by faith, may appropriate all the promises of Elohim, like this one above. Yes, the condition is that we must also
choose to stay in the “secret place
of the Most High”. And even if the enemy
tries to ‘side swipe’ us with a surprise attack, our Father promises us that everything is overruled for good, for
“all things work together for good to those who love Yahweh, to those who are the called according to His
purpose” (Rom 8:28, emphasis mine).
“But יהוה is MY defense,
And my Elohim the rock of my refuge ...” (Ps 94:22 ISR, emphasis mine)
“But whoever listens
to me dwells safely, And is at ease from the dread of evil.” (Pro 1:33 ISR)
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