Watch it! Don't Gather Death!

Watch it! Dont you Gather Death!

[My Offline Bible] 2 Kings 4
38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. 39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not. 40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.

Romans 8:26New King James Version (NKJV)

26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

The gregarious independent spirit of the present age, powerd by the non restrictive quest for money, fame, vainglory and satisfaction of every appetite and inordinate affections is gathering all sorts into the pot from where many of God's children are feeding from.

The dearth or famine in the days of Elisha had sent them gathering food from everywhere. Plants and fruits known and unknown were gathered once it looks edible and good for food, it is added to the list of groceries!

So someone got an unknown one and gathered it plenty, filling his laps with the mentality that plenty is always better and who knows, the lustful sense of competition would have made him feel accomplished having gathered more than any other...not knowing he had gathered death and that not just for himself alone but also for others.

It was while they were eating that the alarm sounded! They had just discovered death in the pot! Thank God for divine intervention, they all would have died by just a meal!

The moral of the story is simple. When driven by our appetites for fame, achievements, wealth, success and so on we must be careful of the unknown substances!

The conceited mentality that we can go by ourselves gathering all sorts may gather death unknowingly!

Our desires must be within the ordination of the Holy Spirit within the will of God otherwise they become inordinate affections contradictory to God and to His will.

The truth is that we know not what we should pray for as we ought to. We don't know what we should desire or aspire to as we should. That ignorance is what makes people gather all sorts of things they don't need and which may become liabilities and may eventually cause death.

But the Spirit of God helps us with this weakness so that through His intervention we might know what is in the heart of God for us and so we can enjoy the omnipotence of God to bring them to pass in our lives in their times.

But we don't want that! We always want to be responsible, we want to be in charge. Why should I depend on God since I already knew what I'm looking for? Everyone is doing something, why not me?

The sons of Issachar were needed back then, not so that they might show what Israel could do but to show what Israel ought to do per time through their understanding of the times.

When we go rogue gathering anything and everything our hands can take, we take problems alongside. When Israel insisted on Saul, God gave them Saul meanwhile He had David in store but his time was not yet. But between Saul and David, the land never knew peace: the feud between the house of Saul and the house of David took many lives and that's the same trouble Ishmael would eternally give Isaac.

We can seek things in the flesh and we can also seek in the Spirit. When we set out for our spiritual, physical, career or ministry satisfaction we must leave the flesh that deceives us that we can do it without God and seek by the Spirit instead. To be carnally or fleshly minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 

The flesh is a dead end. It decays on arrival. Though it offers absolute freedom dependent only on us, but it has no fruit and has no future. Sowing into the flesh ends in corruption!

But when we invest in the Spirit, which may not give us that freedom to do what we want when we want it to get what we want, we soar on the Spirit's winds of love and we are carried to a sure place of peace and rest. Fruit comes out of it with seeds scattering all over to give assurance of a secure future and perpetuation!

Don't gather by your power and might, we do not know or recognize what we are gathering so that we don't gather death into the pot that may undermine our efforts and eventually bring death and decay.

But we can labor by the grace and the doors God opens. We can labor depending daily on the power and the leading of the Spirit. Without being lazy or slotful making the most of the opportunities and the grace upon us we can become all God wants us to be in righteousness and in all integrity.

With the Holy Spirit, we can't make mistakes, error only comes and that assuredly, when we drift to doing our own things without depending on the Spirit God has given us to know those things which have been freely given to us of God!

When we allow God to carry us, nothing and nobody can snatch us away from His hands...destination is assured! When we go on our own we go astray and may need Him leaving the ninety nine to come looking and searching for us...

Watch what you are gathering, don't gather death...let the all knowing God lead by His Spirit in our aspirations and everyone will be alright!

Peace to you and happy new week!

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