The Hidden Weapon

UV 3762/10000 The Hidden Weapon He has made My mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of His hand He has kept Me hidden; and He has made Me a sharpened arrow, in His quiver He has hidden Me. Isaiah 49 v 2 The uni-verse is about the promised Messiah, Jesus. Yet it is true of each follower of Jesus, too. He has seen and called us from the womb. He has named us while we were yet in the womb of our mothers. He has made our mouth like a sword by filling it with His word, sharp, precise, effective, double edged- effective in the world and in the spirit realm, cutting and sculpting both mind and spirit in accordance with the image of the perfect Man-God, Jesus. The shadow of the right hand of the Almighty is always on us. Like the Bluetooth and the wifi has a range beyond which we cannot connect, we should take care to always stay within the range of God’s searching love. True, His hand is not too short to reach us and draw us back even when we stray beyond. We are to remain hidden in God and His presence. We are like a hidden or secret and strategic weapon of the Lord. The trajectory of our careers, lives, families are guided and led by the Lord. We need not quiver with fear as we are hidden in His quiver. There are other sharp arrows or weapons along with us. We are never alone. We have a large cloud of witnesses of faith always ahead and above us. The Lord’s eye and skillful and powerful hand guide us to the bull’s eye of our life’s purpose. Nothing we do is in vain or futile unlike the philosopher’s despair in the book of Ecclesiastes. The Lord will reveal His glory in, through and to us. We have to submit ourselves like an inert object, a sword or an arrow to the hand of the Lord. It does not imply that we do nothing with our time, talent, resources, intellect but that we acknowledge the sovereignty and power and love of the Lord and depend on Him. We should not rebel and jump out of the quiver. We should submit our mouths to Him to be His messengers. We should not resist His hand covering us, rather, we should yield to Him. Unlike Jacob who wrestled with God, we are blessed not in struggling with or against God- a futile exercise but we are blessed in yielding all of our being, our goals, our thoughts, our emotions, our expressions, our efforts to Him.