TOJ (17 Aug 2014)
"Fourth One"


 

Dear Brothers and Sisters, people of God
 
Do you feel like me?  We weep!  We call out:   Our eyes see, our ears hear but we are immobilized, powerless, helpless having been rendered ineffective by the workers of iniquity in our own land whose leader, Nebuchadnezzar, has tied us up just like the Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah as we observe the lawless go through the land and the world looting, annihilating what is before them and guilty of spilling blood.
 
Like Habakkuk we too cry out:  “O LORD, how long shall I cry, … you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention, the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds .… the Chaldeans, … They are terrible and dreadful … they do not spare …  they slay…”  
 
Yes, Lord, we are in our fiery furnace (but not getting burned) in our spirit as we see wickedness prevail and are unable to help the helpless.  Our mouths are not tied, so we come to You crying out for deliverance from the enemy of our souls and like Habakkuk say, “I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved (or corrected).”
 
Like David will say, “O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living….”  BELIEVE “…the just shall live by his faith…”   You, O Lord, are faithful and we are not consumed since a fourth one, like the Son of God walks in the midst of the fire.