"Gaining Perspective"

"Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them." (Psalms 35:6) Here I go again, thinking about numbers and trying to link the number of the text to the number it represents. Here's a quick thought, What if Adam and Eve were not actually naked before the fall, but as God, they were clothed in Light? once they sinned, the Light was stripped away, and they discovered their nakedness. As for Saul, it would not take him long to get refocused on his will for his own life; because no sooner had he returned home, did he already begin plotting a way to destroy David. No doubt God had remove His Spirit from Saul long ago, and all that Saul knew was darkness; as a matter of fact, the only Light that Saul experienced was David and Samuel;  David he hated, and Samuel died right after he returned home, so Saul was pretty much alone in his darkness. It's a funny thing what darkness can do to a man, because without the Light, all the ugliness and sinfulness is made natural, and that which was meant for good is turned into unrighteousness and a reflection of the darkness that it dwells within. It wouldn't be long and Saul would be turning to a Medium for answers, because his heart had grown so hard, he could no longer hear from God. Do we really understand what sin does in our life? I think we really do, but we also think we can somehow get around the results of it; almost as if we can cloth ourselves in Light, and it's not God that wraps His Light around us. We really do need to have the proper perspective; because any Light that we have is not of us, it's always of God, and sin robs us of that which we have been given; we cannot replace it on our own, it is only God that can wrap us up again! Whatever opposes the will of God must be made dark; it must be pushed back behind us, and it must be part of the darkness from which we have been delivered. Returning back to that from which we came to retrieve that item is a slippery slope, and chances are your going to fall. Therefore, it is really in our best interest to give that item, or whatever it is, over to the Lord for Him to deal with it; and more than that, let Him take care of the temptation also, by removing all that makes it pleasing in our hearts. If you know that your hand will get burnt if you stick it in fire, because you have experienced the pain, are you going to put your hand in fire again? That's the general idea; it's time we quit playing with fire... "Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my lions. And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there. Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing. Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. This evil people refuse to hear My words, which walk in the imaginations of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave to Me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto Me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear." (Jeremiah 13:1-11)