YOU MAY NOT KNOW JACK ABOUT BEANS, BUT YOU MAY KNOW ABOUT STALK

Have you ever wanted to run away?  I mean really wanted to, as an adult.  I did, when I was being stalked.

I literally did run away—about five miles, for a short time—and I kept in touch with my wife for the duration, while I simultaneously entertained the thought of doing something on a more permanent basis (I’m not talking about suicide, I’m speaking of actually leaving my family—like Jonah’s willingness to be cast into the sea so that those around him might be spared).  I could readily relate to David when he penned that he wished he had dove wings—then he would fly away and be at rest.  Then he would wander away and remain in the wilderness (Psalm 55:6-7). 

Though often intelligent, stalkers are highly irrational people, and their irrationality is a highly communicable disease that finds its prey long before the stalker him or herself does.

Have you ever been to a foreign land where you didn’t know the language?  It can be incredibly frustrating and not conducive to getting much accomplished.  This is the kind of confusion the psalmist is asking God to visit his enemies with—the kind where nothing is accomplished and things are torn down.  Such confusion was seen at the tower of Babel.

When God observed what was (and wasn’t) happening, He determined to mix up the languages of the people.  The more we rely on others or ourselves, the less we rely on God, and His breaking up the party wasn’t  because He was a killjoy, but because man needs God more than he realizes, and without Him, gets into more trouble than either of them would want.

It’s trusting in the Lord’s knowing better than you about anything, and  knowledge about the reality that is His omnipresence, and His omnipotence, that gives you the greatest peace possible, midst the most trying of circumstances.

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Psalm 55

King James Version (KJV)

 ¹Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
 ²Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
 ³Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
 ⁴My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
 ⁵Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
 ⁶And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
 ⁷Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
 ⁸I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
 ⁹Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
 ¹⁰Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
 ¹¹Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
 ¹²For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
 ¹³But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
 ¹⁴We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
 ¹⁵Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
 ¹⁶As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
 ¹⁷Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
 ¹⁸He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
 ¹⁹God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
 ²⁰He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
 ²¹The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
 ²²Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
 ²³But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.