Posted by Steve (Billy Steven Crider) on May 9, 2008, 8:44 pm
Well...I spent the last two hours or more locked out of my house, maybe less...time seems so much longer under stress.
I finally broke a window...with the strong need to blow the shofar before the sun had set...it was dark on the rear skies...the horizon, and setting sun, were near dark..with twighlight left, the shofar is not supposed to blown during Sabbath. I spent the last hour...thinking of the watchman...that would be the watchman spoken of in Ezekiel. To what measure, must one go, to sound the alarm when set to watch...ones life? Ones health...? Ones window?
I struggled for a while to break that window. Some unexpected financial strains have arisen of late. On one hand I justified in my mind...God these people are sinful...they don't keep your Sabbath...I was convicted of my own pride and self righteousness...I have a job to do.
Further, and further the sun dropped...
I heard a voice say in the midst of my struggles"...they don't keep the law of God, why should You go through the expense of breaking a window? You are only making them more accountable by teaching them of Sabbath."
Then I knew...I recognized the battle.
You see as I was cleaning my house, I felt what I percieved and dismissed an attack "Put that Shofar AWAY!"
I continued to clean. I live in a bad neighborhood. I had the deadbolt on the front door locked. The washing machine at the back door was running. I went out side into the backyard. My Dogs, Boxers...one very large and part Mastiff, have a 6ft tall Kennel that runs about 12 ft out and 30 ft down the outside of my backdoor, using that wall as part of the enclosure and surrounding the back door. I was cleaning the kennel, and the load was unbalanced making the wasing machine jump. My Kitchenette is a chase about doorwidth and on the one side, sink,cabinets and a closet, on the other the fridge, which will not open completely due to the small chase, stove and washer which is closest to the door. The washer, jumped in front of the door, just far enough to block it, the stove and fridge, supporting it, making it nigh impossible to move.
So I am in the yard, my keys are in the house.
And I am broke and don't want to break anything...and I am standing in my neighbors yard...waiting upon a relative to bring me keys which may or may not work.
I watch the sun setting closer and closer...on the one hand, I count that my neighbors if only for a moment, recognize Sabbath. I realize, some entity of the Spirit realm is quarrelling with me about the shofar, then it was that one statement..."you are only making them more accountable..."
To which I heard a second..."they are already accountable."
I smiled...Thanked the Lord, for his truth, and his timely delivery to me. Interesting that the Watchman should be so prevalent in my mind that last hour. Ezekiel speaks of the burden of the Watchman who will have the blood of those whom he fails to warn, required at his hand. This weeks Audio sermon...is from Ezekiel.
Talk about a word fittly spoken. I recognized then the true nature of all the events prior. I broke the window at the back door, moved the washer, and made it inside to go out and blow the shofar, just as the sun was nearly diminished into total twighlight, the same time I usually blow the Shofar, just before last light.
Happy Sabbath, and to the seekers of truth AND righteousness, God Bless.
--Steve
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