Drowning through small sins and worries This comes out of Psalm 23:2 and is something that was discussed with my Bible Study group. The part of this verse I want to concentrate on is the second line which reads “he leads me besides still waters.” Most of us in our Western Culture mindset don’t fully understand this verse. Let me see if I can enliven things for you. Water was seen as a sign of purifying and Judgement, it was also the item that was used by proselytes as a way of washing off the sins of the world. Yet in this Psalm, David uses the water to symbolize the sins that plague us. The reasoning behind this is that if a sheep drinks from rushing water, it will drown, if the sheep has not yet had its wool shorn off. The reason is that as the sheep is drinking, the rushing water is naturally splashing. That splashing then gets into the wool, starts to weight the sheep down, and as it drinks it gets pulled further into the water and will drown. This is how Satan likes to work, he keeps hitting us with little things here and there that we don’t reject, repent, or try to resist. These, and the pressures of life, then slowly begin to drag us down and we can become overwhelmed and thus drown in our sins. Only the death we suffer is not just physical, put spiritual as well. This is what Peter was encountering as he walked on the water towards Jesus. When we put our faith and trust into Christ, then He is able to still the waters of trouble in our lives, and lead us to a place where our soul can calmly feed on the living water that He provides. He is our shepherd, the question is do we follow his voice to calm waters, or do we listen to the wrong voice, drink from the world, and then risk death. As we move forward through this weekend let this be a guide and a focus as you seek to draw closer to Christ and what his death and resurrection means for all of mankind.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 08:47:47 +0000
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