Bible Wonders - ABIDE

Did you ever wonder? Did you ever wonder?

I do. Did you ever wonder? Why the sun always rises, but the stars never fall?

Why dry land is never satisfied by water? And why fire never says enough? So today on Bible Wonders, I've certainly been wondering as the events of this week just seem to get crazier and crazier. I'm certainly been praying and God has put it on my heart specifically to pray. That, Psalm 68, I can't recommend it high enough. And so as I was actually praying that this morning, I began to wonder actually about this verse where it's Psalm 68, 12, and it says, Kings of armies did flee apace, and she that tarried at home divided the spoil. Well, when you look at that verse in Hebrew, it clearly is these kings. And the way it says, when it emphasizes things in Hebrew, it uses a word twice. And so it says that the kings are going to flee, flee, so they're going to be leaving.

But the one that got me was that she that tarried at home divided the spoil. And that word, tarried at home, when I looked at it in Hebrew, I almost jumped out of my seat because the word is abide. And if you were to look at it in Hebrew, it is so beautiful to me because the first letter in this word, which would be translated abide or it could be translated sheepfold. It starts out with a nun, which again is faith or what you're going to believe.

It's also pictured as a seed at times. So here's this beautiful sense of faith, what you believe, and then you've got above, which is essentially Jacob's ladder that's coming down. So you've got faith in what's coming down.

And if that isn't cool enough, then it ends in a tav, which is the letter, the sign for a cross or the truth. And so you've got faith that what's coming down is the truth. I mean, no wonder Jesus said to abide in him in John chapter 15. Have faith in what's coming down. So she that has faith in what's coming down, but the beautiful thing about the way that the word's used here, so she that truly abides, really, is going to be the one that divides the spoil, who has faith in what's coming down. And we do know what's coming down is the cross. Jesus came down, and it's true. And so not unlike Isaiah 41, that he who waits on the Lord, this is he who tarries at home, divides the spoil, or more specifically, she.

Well, why does it say she? Well, in my opinion, it's because we are the bride of Christ. And those of us who stay at our post, abiding in Christ, praying, seeking his face, humbling ourselves, we're going to be the ones that divide the spoil because Jesus picks us up. I got more on Psalm 68 coming up tomorrow, but I'm just clearly as I think about the beauty of abiding. And the word, literally, it's a sheepfold. And in some of the Psalms, David uses it like I was in the sheepfold, and you'll see it translated that way. So he who stays in the sheepfold or she that stays in the sheepfold and waits on the Lord, who we know is coming down, right, in truth, we're going to divide the spoil. Join with me this week as we pray Psalm 68.