Friday, June 28, 2013

Broken Arrows

Some years ago I saw a movie by this title, but no this is not about that military term, at least not exactly. What we are discussing is the place where God says He has broken the arrows and bows and shields of the enemy. That sounds like a place I want to live my life – the place where the enemy has no weapons or power against us. God describes this place in Psalm 76:1-3.

As I read this scripture this morning I realized a pattern that was true in the Old Testament Hebrew, the pattern of saying something twice, of repeating the same thing differently. Yes, I just did it there. As I read the first three verses, I saw this pattern in each one. The trouble is I saw that God said He lived in three places in the first two verses, and then called them one place in the third verse. That is when I realized it was not a physical place He was describing. I went back and looked up the meanings of the names Judah, Salem, and Zion. Als the words God, name, tabernacle, and dwelling place. Substituting those meanings we get:

In praise God (actually here the plural gods – angels, Elohim, us as believers) is seen. His position is in strong power. In peaceful completeness is His cover. His physical dwelling (that would be us) is in the pillar of the wilderness desert. There is where the weapons of the enemy have been destroyed. If we can praise and remain in a state of peaceful completeness by trusting God is in us and will prevail, the enemies weapons are broken.

Prayer
Father, we praise and exalt You as the most High. We put our trust in You, that You live in us and through us. You will break every weapon of the enemy. Please be with Your people today and help them to this place. In Jesus name. Amen.