It shall not come nigh thee…
15 Jun 2011 1 Comment
I just had a Shug Avery coming home kinda moment. I was taking my bath, reading my review novel, and ran across a particular phrase from Psalms 91 for the second time this evening. It is quite often that we run across subliminal messages in media and dismiss them as something else. We grow too comfortable with the power that media venues have and allow the negative to seep through as normal parts of life. We ignore important phrases, gestures, and images, but I have come to a place in my life where every word–every gesture–every image matters. I choose not to dismiss this one.
Anyway, the first time was when I was viewing Ghost in Love, a Nollywood flick about a vengeful spirit set on harming the lover (and his whole family) she believes is responsible for her death. The lover’s family finds Yahweh through a priest, who shows them how to cast out this evil spirit by calling on the name of our Savior and believing the Word that He left. As the little black priest chanted in broken English, I was moved. Especially when he said, “Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.”
As soon as I got in the tub and cracked open Vanessa Davis Griggs’ Redeeming Waters to where I’d left off, one of her characters was rapping a song with those exact same lyrics. Can somebody say YHWH is trying to tell me something? Now, I know some of you are thinking that’s just a coincidence. To you I say, shut up.
I don’t know what lies before me, but I do know what I need to do to understand. Grateful for the signs that YHWH chooses to use when speaking. Whatever battle is headed my way, big or small, it shall not come nigh thee.
Jun 15, 2011 @ 12:30:08
LOL at “To you I say, shut up.”
I loved this post and it is no coincidence that I read this post today. I have been struggling with ignoring little signs here and there from God. I pray for guidance and answers and things will happen to encourage or speak to me concerning my requests, yet I ignore them because I think it’s too good to be true. I really need to trust His voice and drown out my own fear. Thanks for a great post