Hungry like the wolf BY: KB © 12.21.14

I know the title for this reading is a bit strange. You usually don't think of a Duran Duran song when you're reading the Bible. I was reading a different devotional today, Faith's Checkbook by Charles Spurgeon. The reading addressed God's wrath and correction. I had to read the passage a couple of times to really get the gist of His approach.

From Anger to Love
"He will turn again, He will have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea"   (Micah 7:19).

God never turns from His love, but He soon turns from His wrath. His love to His chosen is according to His nature; His anger is only according to His office. He loves because He is love; He frowns because it is necessary for our good. He will come back to the place in which His heart rests, namely, His love to His own, and then He will take pity upon our griefs and end them. What a choice promise is this--"He will subdue our iniquities"! He will conquer them. They cry to enslave us, but the LORD will give us victory over them by His own right hand. Like the Canaanites, they shall be beaten, put under the yoke, and ultimately slain. As for the guilt of our sins, how gloriously is that removed! "All their sins"--yes, the whole host of them; "thou wilt cast"--only an almighty arm could perform such a wonder; "into the depths of the sea"--where Pharaoh and his chariots went down. Not into the shallows out of which they might be washed up by the tide, but into the "depths" shall our sins be hurled. They are all gone. They sank into the bottom like a stone. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

The line that stood out for me is "He will subdue our iniquities" in other words He will bind, take away and yes, even kill the things that seeks to remove us from His fold. Like a Good Shepherd He will sense and remove the wolf.

Keep in mind that the wolf , by nature, is a predator and sheep have an innate sense of recognition but we get too curious about things outside of our fold and often lose that sense of fear.  We can override that sense of fear, whatever the case may be , we begin to entertain the wolf. When we do we can only hope that its first bite will be swift and merciful ...but again, it's in a wolfs nature to rip, tear and shred...

Don't miss the analogy!!! What wolf are you entertaining? What is seeking to cut you from the fold?  Don't let the New Year find you stuck in "old" behaviors!

Mark 2:21 - 22   21"No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results. 22"No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins."