JOTS FROM OLD JAKE
THE THRESHING FLOOR!
Friday, Jun. 20, 2008 - 2:05 p.m.
My pappy used to promise me a �good threshing� for what ever evil thing I was doing. Some I earned before the promise. (Oh the good ole days.)
Amos 9:9 "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.
Every sifting comes by divine command and permission. Satan must ask leave before he can lay a finger upon Job. In some sense our siftings are directly the work of heaven, for the text says, "I will sift the house of Israel." Satan, like a drudge, may hold the sieve, hoping to destroy the corn; but the overruling hand of the Master is accomplishing the purity of the grain by the very process which the enemy intended to be destructive.
How awesome is knowing, but much sifted corn of the Lord's floor, be comforted by the blessed fact that the Lord directs both flail and sieve to His own glory, and to our eternal profit.
The Lord Jesus will surely use the fan which is in His hand, and will divide the precious from the vile. All are not Israel that are of Israel; the heap on the barn floor is not clean provender, and hence the winnowing process must be performed. In the sieve true weight alone has power. Husks and chaff being devoid of substance must fly before the wind, and only solid corn will remain.
Observe the complete safety of the Lord's wheat; even the least grain has a promise of preservation. God Himself sifts, and therefore it is stern and terrible work; He sifts them in all places, "among all nations"; He sifts them in the most effectual manner, "like as corn is sifted in a sieve"; and yet for all this, not the smallest, lightest, or most shriveled grain, is permitted to fall to the ground. Every individual believer is precious in the sight of the Lord, a shepherd would not lose one sheep, or a jeweler one diamond, or a mother one child, or a man one limb of his body, nor will the Lord lose one of His redeemed people. However little we may be, if we are the Lord's, we may rejoice that we are preserved in Christ Jesus.
VERSE FOR THIS ENTRY!
Isaiah 29:14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
ULTERIOR WORDS OF WISDOM� OR/NOT!
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose!
~Darrin Weinberg~ (whoever he is?)
May you be filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit!
