Heralds Digest

  “ A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; A mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan. Why do you fume with envy, you mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain which God desires to dwell in; Yes, the Lord will dwell in it forever. ” Psalms 68 : 15 - 16 NKJV The opposite of real rest is fake fight; nothing more, nothing less. Unfortunately, life’s worries and anxieties on the activities of its enemies often occupy the attention of our hearts more than the promises of rest from God. Whereas, the evidence of fake fight is not the absence of the enemies’ wicked activity; it is the evidence of the absence of God. When the heart truly accepts the invitation to the presence of God, it accesses the real rest and recesses the fake fight. All its cares suddenly become the concerns of the Lord. Let the hearts with real rest focus on the Lord’s concerns, rather than getting disturbed by the enemies’ worries. And the Lord’s concerns, including His holiness in the midst of h...

  “ Poverty and shame will come to him who disdains correction, But he who regards a rebuke will be honored. A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul, But it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.” Proverbs 13 : 18 - 19 NKJV While there is no doubt that the overriding motive behind human desires is prosperity, progress, and promotion, the experience of David in the wilderness of king Saul underscores the difference between deceitful and delightful desires. King Saul’s desire to retain his position as the king of Israel, after God has rejected him, is a perfect example of a deceitful desire. At one point in one of his wild goose chase escapades, Saul even said, “ God has delivered him (David) into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars ( I Samuel 23 : 7 )”. He had several opportunities to respond to divine correction, but he scolded and scorned all these corrective privileges until his deceitful desire ended in destruction. Where...