I meditated on these 3 promises of God for a week before it sunk into my spirit.
3 promises of God for the righteous in this verse:
1. He opens blind eyes
2. He raises up those who are bowed down
3. He loves those who are righteous
What are blind eyes?
The word here is "ivver" which means to be blind to spiritual things. In a symbolic sense the Hebrew word means "men who walk in the darkness of ignorance'
There a moments in life when we can be blind to a certain person. I read of cases of women cheated of money by persons who claim to love me. Some of them lose millions of RM over the internet due to sweet words of love. This is blind eyes in a spiritual sense.
Before I became a Christian I was blind. I thought truth resided in the idols that I prayed to. I thought truth could be found in the temples sitting at the feet of monks chanting the sutras. I was even involved in reading the books of Lobsang Rampa, a Tibetan monk thinking that what he said was truth.
It is easy to be blinded by things. To me the "blindness" in Ps 146:7 has to do with spiritual blindness to the truth more than anything else. I am comforted by this, as long as I walk with God, He will keep me from being "blinded". As long as I am in prayer, He will "open the eyes of the blind". As long as I am righteous in JESUS, He will keep me from deception.
To "open" is to "paqach" which means to "to enable to see things otherwise hidden"
I also realize that when I am interceding for people, there are times when I can sense the blindness in their minds as though that they have not received any revelation from God concerning certain things. As I continue to pray I can see the dark clouds clearing and truth from God's word dawning upon them.
How can we be bowed down so that God can raise us up?
To be bowed down is to "submit oneself to anyone". It is actually a deliberate act of humbling oneself. Many times in my working place, I deliberately humbled myself to keep the peace with my boss. Even though I could have argued with her to prove that I was right and she was wrong, I kept my peace. Somehow God had a way of working things out for me.
Even in the ministry, when I am being 'criticized' and spoken against, when what I have done for the work of the Lord never seem to be enough, when my heart is weeping inside because of unkind words, when I am really helpless....I just quiet myself and bowed myself down to God.
Notice that it is "being bowed down to God in our heart" and not to be bowed down to people who can keep discouraging us with their comments. To be "bowed down to God" is the safest place to be when faced with such criticisms. To be bowed down to people is quite useless as they are unable to comfort us the way only God can!
When we do this God will "raise us up" i.e. "comfort the afflicted" The act of bowing down is an act of humility and it is the best option when faced with all kinds of criticism and unjust, unkind accusations. This is what I do and continue doing when I am facing a sense of helplessness in the ministry. I run to the safest place I can ever be - the arms of God.
The Lord loves the righteous
This verse relates to the earlier verse of being bowed down. Those who are bowed down to God, those who humbled themselves before God - they are the righteous ones. They are loved by God!
When we are facing trouble or criticisms, when we are being spoken against - let us bow our hearts down before God and because He loves the righteous and the humble, He will surely deliver us! AMEN.
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