Sha-bat, Tevet 18, 6002 – January 6, 2018
Not Self Control
We are often encouraged to have self control. It may be that to object to this wording is being too picky, however, scriptures shed a bit different take on this matter. To better understand this, let me share a few scriptures.
Proverbs 16:32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
33 The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
Here we see the idea of ruling our spirit, which we might refer to as self control. Interestingly, this scripture is immediately followedd by one that shows that it is not luck, but our Father Yahuah (Lord) that determines “chance” outcomes.
Proverbs 25:27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
28He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
We can see that ruling one’s spirit is good whatever it is, or potentially so. Notice that just before this that seeking one’s own glory is not a good thing, and therefore is an example of not ruling one’s own spirit. Yet it would fit with ruling one’s “self”, right?
Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
God created the sun and the moon to “rule” over the day and night three full days after He established day and night. So ruling can be a good thing. But this begins to reveal how ruling can be good.
2 Samuel 23:1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
2 The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
So we see here that ruling in the fear of God (reverance to God) is good. David even makes the connection to how the sun rules the morning. It is this same type of ruling that God calls out to those that follow Him to rule over many nations and not be ruled over, the same with man over his wife, people in chrage to rule over the lands, etc.
So, what we need is respect for our Father, and using that respect control the power within us. Today, on this Shabbat, let us all seek Him and His ways that we might rule our spirits well.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King! Praise the name YAH! Let Your will be done and Your kingdom come here, as it is in heaven. Send us today Your overwhelming provision that he who has little has no lack and he who has much has nothing over. Forgive us our trespasses and transgressions, and help us all to forgive those that have trespassed or transgressed against us. Give us clean hearts and minds, Father. Give us eyes to see and ears to hear. Help us to believe and to follow You. Let it begin today that all people see that You alone are doing these things, that You alone are our Elohim. Send in now the $424,523,962.53 that yet this week we could begin mighty works in Your kingdom. Deliver us from indebtedness Father. Destroy the works of evil that reign among us. Restore unto Your people one thousandfold, and thousands of thousands, of all the good that has been taken or held back in any way from Your people, and more besides. Set the slave free, Father. Please hear our cry. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). We ask all these things of You, Father, in Your name YAH. We ask all these things in the name YAH Yeshuah. Amen.