"Stay Covered"

"As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them." (Psalms 140:9)

  If you have been through something ugly and devastating, then you probably know how the Lord can turn devastation and ugliness into something you never expected to see. This is why we do what we do! The God we serve is always more than able to flip ugly to beauty, devastation to restoration, and take the thing that was breaking your heart, into something that tears down strongholds! Actually, the first thing I thought of as I was reading this was the curse the devil received in the garden, as God said, "Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." (Genesis 3:14-15) Whether you believe it or not, but that was God's plan all along; the whole thing, from the temptation to the fall, it was making something, breaking it, and then making it brand new. I know that might be something of a controversy, to say the least; but if God already knows the beginning to the end, He knows what is going on in between, every last detail. Which is exactly why we must pay attention to what God says! Paul uses the example of how God places His truth within us; which is that truth we receive from the Spirit that dwells in us, guiding us and showing us spiritual things that we otherwise would know nothing about. (Ephesians 3) It is this same Spirit that comforts us, helps us, and convicts us; making us both conformed into the servant we need to be, while at the same time breaking all of those bad habits we keep going back to, over and over again. The process, in case you have forgotten, is called being sanctified. When we came to Christ and gave Him our life, we were justified by His blood; all of our sins were washed away! This might be hard to imagine, but the word "ALL" is actually a word that means ALL! Now, if you want to feel any better about where you are at with God, I would have you know that if you have been washed in the blood of Christ, your sins have been removed! This might be hard for some to imagine, but God does not go by time, as we know time to exist; He lives in eternity! What that might look like, if you could see it, is the final stage of what we are to become, He sees it already! Yes I know, there are just some things that are too hard to imagine; but God can turn anything upside down...

"Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made." "So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified." (Esther 5:14 & 7:10)