Monday, December 6, 2021

Bobble-head

 

This is something I thought a lot about especially in the last few days. Even in marriages, without true conversation about anything that matters in a relationship, things will go wrong. So we should not be one of those who just bobble-head our way through life!

Was remembering about a time long ago that amounts to a time span of at least fifteen years up through this year, I would see people not amen God’s word but just bobbing their head up and down as if to “agree with it”. It is as if they would agree with pastor or said teacher they agree and yet they might not know the word for themselves in their heart. We must be very mindful of what we agree to especially in this day and hour!

But we are not to be bobble-heads! God’s word will break every chain. We are to know what is bound in heaven and what is loosed in heaven for that is what God expects for us on earth! But you cannot just nod your head up and down to claim it. YOU have to speak to bind something.

When Jesus was baptized and then walked into the wilderness to be tried( as to His faith) We find this in:Matthew 4:3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” 4 But He answered and said, “ It is written, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” 5 Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it written: “He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and “In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’” 7 Jesus said to him, “It is written again, “You shall not tempt the LORD your God.’” 8 Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him al the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me. 10 Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan!” For it is written, “You shall worship the LORD your God and Him only you shall serve.”

And the devil left Him….and behold angels came and ministered to Him……

The tempter came to point out identity, and not what one thinks they deserve. I cringe every time I hear those commercial ads to signing up for Medicare so they, the man or woman can get what they deserve. If you did not work for a paycheck these many years how do you get what you really deserve? Is that not riding on another’s coattails? Many people are thinking they deserve everything in a department store and not pay for it, but do a smash and grab thing and sounds likes, looks lie and is thievery!

 Abiding in the Word : John 15:3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Jesus has spoken. He left His kingdom to expand through us. But we must speak as He spoke and not be a bobble-head. Or point to another and speak: “Yeah”…what she said or what he just said about the kingdom of God! No, we each are to speak God’s word to Him.

We are to abide in the Lord, abide in every word He spoke about His kingdom. And then we should be ready for God’s thing to be revealed to us, in us and through us.

You know with the birth of Jesus, we are reminded of a young lady, still in her teens and being marked to be the mother of our Lord.  The history of Mary though goes beyond the pages but are found in Hebrew history as coming from a family who lived within God’s word. Her father a scribe wrote daily. He would be in the temple as God’s word was given and he would take it home …the same thing and repeat it to the family. Mary was wrapped up in God and His thing! This family only lived by that word of God. So it should not surprise us that an angel came to Mary.

So when the angel appeared to Mary, she was well prepared. She knew the word of God. She knew the many generations that amounted to fourteen that spoke of the coming Messiah.

Being in His word is being prepared for what He has in store for you. So that you will be ready for that next awakening in Him! But today you must bind and loose. You must loose the Holy Spirit in your life and that of your family. You must bind the principalities, the powers, the rulers of the darkness, and wicked spirits in heavenly places and tear down strongholds using the mighty weapons God has provided for us in the name of Jesus. You are to bind that blinding spirit of antichrist. You are to bind every spirit of the occult: astrology, every familiar spirit and witchcraft. You are to bind sexual immorality, idolatry, obscenity and profanity. You are to bind the spirits of alcohol, nicotine and drug addiction. You are to bind worldly wisdom in any form----every oppose to the truth, and to bind destructive, deceitful thieving spirits.

You and I bind and loose. We bind the enemy in any form he is in within or close to us and loose our brethren by the Holy Spirit from the snare of the devil who has held them captive.

In the book of Luke we find Christ’s birth, and the song of Mary. When Jesus is but eight days old, Mary and Joseph take him for circumcision and then He is presented in the Temple. Mary’s being bound in the word of God and following God’s instruction, her steps were ordered in the Temple with Jesus. Here a strategic word of God is given to Mary from Simeon when he sees God’s salvation.

Luke 2:25-35 And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. 26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. 27 So he came by the Spirit into the temple. And when the parents brought in the Child Jesus, to do for Him according to the custom of the law, 28 he took Him up in his arms and blessed God and said: 29 “Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace. According to Your word; 30 For my eyes have seen your salvation 31 which You have prepared before the face of all peoples, 32 a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel.” 33 And Joseph and His mother marveled at those things which were spoken of Him. 34 Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, “Behold, this Child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against 35 “(yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

 

Simeon looked at Mary and spoke words that she would not fully understand until she stood beneath the cross of her Son 33 years later. On that day she surely remembered Simeon’s words, “A sword will pierce your own soul too” (v. 35).

Jesus said to his mother: "Woman, this is your son." Then he said to the disciple: "This is your mother."  John 19:26-27

What sorrow must have filled Mary's heart! She watched nervously as He was being nailed to the Cross! What was the prophecy from Simeon in the Temple: oh yes, once more… in the Temple (Luke 2:34 Then Simeon blessed them & said to Mary His mother, “ Behold, this Child is destined for the fall & rising of many in Israel, & for a sign which will be spoken against. 35 “Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

It all amounts to that acceptance or rejection of Christ, the real thoughts of one’s heart toward himself and toward God that really becomes clear! And you find it even now, when people are choosing to play and not seek the Lord.

But what will we reject and what will we accept? Mary was found with the 120 in the upper room praying. And the Holy Spirit to fill them and send them out for purpose! What could a young Mary who just watched her Son die for man, those who would receive Him, give to another? She came to live with John, who would mark the way through history, boiled in hot oil and live to tell the word of God. Mary was there. She was no bobble-head. She was there in the moment, in each trial and tribulation that came to believers after her Son’s death and resurrection and where are we found? Are we smoozing our neighbors or relatives? Are we relaxing with an ale in hand when someone is racing toward hell and we give them a wave, a toasting of the ale and bobble-head our way to who knows where?

 

From Luke 2:25-35 we see people. We see those following the instructions for their Son. We see a man Simeon who was the just and the devout waiting for the Consolation of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him. from verse 18, Simeon took up Jesus in his arms…and blessed God speaking…..not bobbing his head….but speaking…. 29 “Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace. According to Your word; 30 For my eyes have seen your salvation 31 which You have prepared before the face of all peoples, 32 a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel.”

Then marveling at those things Joseph and Mary hear this:  said to Mary His mother, “Behold, this Child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against 35 “(yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

Those thoughts, a dialogue with one’s self, to reason something over in the mind, but the only thought is God’s word that we should adhere too. And He chooses to fulfill it as is to His will and way indeed! Our hearts are to be set like Simeon toward that relationship in prayer and word. We are to be set to hear the voice of the Lord and know the way in which we are to walk. When we do, then our feet are directed toward those moments of heaven meeting earth in specifics like in that of Simeon holding Jesus in his hands. Mary heard the sound of her Son’s voice and went to the home of John. 

She would be there to remind John of the ways of Jesus….to know the two loved Him greatly and would see Him again. He would be there to tell her of the love He had for many. He would tell her the adventures and the miracles seen when they went from Capernaum to Jerusalem!

No bobble-heads in that of Cana of Galilee. None are seen again in the wedding in Cana of Galilee, a miracle indeed for families to meet in the marriage of a couple where the best of wine was seen and given.  Where healings occurred like: those healed after Sabbath sunset in Luke 4:40-41, when the disciples were called to leave fishing for fish to fish for men in Luke 5. And like Mary standing at the foot of the Cross. The life of Jesus would be seen by His mother Mary. Trials and tribulations would occur. There is  always the mourning or grieving over the specific trial. But there is also the mourning or grieving for the expectancy of God’s good in it. Mourning that the past thing is over and done with. But there is the mourning looking with an expectant hope God is not done here. No one has arrived. We all have time here to make that difference and somewhere on that path of obedience we will hear “well done thou good and faithful servant!” We will know His voice and stay within His presence, knowing victory is ours, peace is the place we stand and we will hear the trumpet blast to rise to immortality!

Let’s be bound in the love of God, telling of the adventures we have had in the Lord, and let us keep loving and reaching for He comes quickly now….can you hear Him coming….for those who delight we speak as He spoke, and do as he has done and be ready to rise…to be ready for that next thing in God ……….Amen and Amen!



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