"My Cause Too"

"Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help." (Psalms 35:2) When you consider that it is His cause that you are doing, then it actually becomes your cause also; making God's will to be our will is always the best formula for success. Trying to take our will and making it God's will, will always result in a crash; sometimes resulting in more hurt than we can handle, at least in our own strength that is; because if we are a child of God, then even our biggest crashes are meant for good, no matter how it was that we ended up in the crash. Isn't that interesting how that works? Take for example king Saul, Israel's first king; a king that God did not want them to have, but gave them anyways because they insisted. Yet, in many ways, it was David that became the first king of Israel that was actually appointed by God's cause; for it was through David that God would establish His throne, forever. You really cannot figure out what God is doing in the midst of anything you might be going through; the best that you can hope to do, is to make absolutely sure that what ever it is that you are doing, it is His cause that is yours, not the other way around. When you consider the 'shield' and 'buckler', they can both represent shields; however one is small, while the other, the 'buckler', is a much larger shield, say one the covers the whole body. It's the 'take hold' part of this that makes this very interesting, because what that speaks about is to tie fast, as in to bind bonds strongly. Now think about the implication, or application of what is being said, because it's God's cause that is always going to be the last one standing; therefore, where do you want to be represented in that day? Not able to picture what it is that I am saying? That's okay, because it's not really about our plans and our purposes; so when that day comes, what is done in His will stands, while what is done in our will is burnt up in the fire; but for now, what is done in His will and with His purpose, will stand greater than anything we can display for ourselves, yet we get to be a part of that; meaning, that we are displayed in His glory, thereby making our little cause part of His great cause, regardless of what we might have intended it to be. If you would like to see an example of what it is that I just said, then the best picture we have of that is Peter and Jesus, with regard to the "Rock and the stone"... "And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which art in heaven. And I say unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." (Matthew 16:16-19)