Daily Scripture Threshing for Thursday, November 4, 2021
Today’s Text: Isaiah 50:4-11
Key Verse: Isaiah 50:7 (KJV): “For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.”
Setting your face like a flint is a scriptural word meaning be determined. It’s a phrase that describes a believer’s calmness in the face of situations we may dim are a cause for alarm while you trust that God will come through for you. This is humanly difficult; but anyone who trusts God will never be put to shame. It’s not easy to stay calm when things seem out of control. It’s like Brazilian instruction on how to react to hungry pythons. It tells you never to run for pythons run faster. Instead, lay flat on the ground on your back with your feet together, arms at your side, head well down. The python will then try to push its head under your feet. The rule is keep calm and let him swallow your foot. It is quite painless and it will take a long time. If you lose your head and struggle, he will quickly whip his coils around you. If you keep calm and still, he will go on swallowing. Wait patiently until he has swallowed up to about your knee. Then carefully take out your knife and insert it into the distended side of his mouth and with a quick rip slit him up.
This sounds wild and weird but they claim it worked with some incredibly dangerous pythons. Friends, except we learn the secret of calmness, the wildest monsters of our lives may never be defeated. It may seem as difficult as staying calm before a hungry python; but steadily settling our faces on God put us on the solid rock. It is trusting on the whole power of the Gospel. It is being steadfast with great resolve that hope and faith in God does not make a-shame. There are no traces of God ever failing to be God. There are no blunders in Him, and no variableness. We can learn from Jesus, who knew what awaited Him in Jerusalem; but He also know that it is never shame but glory at the end. Therefore, He ‘steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem.’ We are a type of Christ. We have been called to a life of glorious resolve in trustful reliance upon God: that come what may, we would never be put to shame.
Quote for the Day: “God’s loudest voice is never heard when the thunders roll. It is heard during our calmest silence.” (Simon Olatunji)
Prayer: Dear Lord, thank you for being the one who gives us the strength to hold our breathe together in panic-season. Give us grace each day to set our face upon You, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
With all my love and prayers,
Rev Simon Wale Olatunji, Ph.D
The Darling Bishop (DaBishop)
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