The Curse Causeless

 

The Curse Causeless
by Donna Diorio

Over the last 24 hours, from two unrelated sources I have read Proverbs 26:2 and it is a proverb I have always be a little troubled by. When I went back to the original language this time I saw and made my own choice of interpreting the Hebrew verb meanings I believe fits:

"As the bird by wavering, as the swallow by fleeing, 

so the curse causeless shall not enter."

     Without those specific interpretation choices the usual interpretation of the proverb has always sounded judgmental to me. It brings to my mind Job's friends pointing out all the ways they thought he must have failed for all the trials that came on him. Awful things you would hope your friends would not think of you, but they were trying to explain it in terms of their understanding of God's Word.

     Yet God also said to Satan, the enemy of our souls in the book of Job: "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil."

     Jesus was perfect, sinless, yet He was crucified. In the case of Yeshua, He took upon Himself our sins and laid down His own life for the purpose of defeating the enemy who had entrance to our lives through those sins. 

    That's the thing, a curse cannot enter us if all the doors are shut that allow entrance. So in the case of Job, even though he was in God's eyes "blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil" despite all that, there was an entrance left in Job that was open to Satan. Was it the "wavering" of Job expecting bad things to befall his children because they were not as blameless and upright as He was? 

     So I am wondering if all our trials in life are not simply God leading us to close off all the entry-ways of the enemy to come in with curses. Not the big entryways that our friends may judge us to have, but even the little ones like our wavering and fleeing without trusting God in every situation of life. Each of us has things in life that are easier for us to trust God about than other things in our lives - and we are all different on that count!

     Perhaps these trials in life are also somewhat prophetic of the trials of the last days and our battles with the enemy to retain our faith in how our salvation in the LORD covers us to the uttermost, no matter what. 

     Jesus said in John 14 "I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me." He was talking to the disciples preparing them for His death and the promise of the Holy Spirit that would come to abide in them.

     No matter how we might consider ourselves "blameless and upright" fearing God and shunning evil, I have yet to meet the person who could say honestly like Yeshua that Satan had ZERO entryway into Him.

     There was no legal access for the curse of crucifixion to come upon Jesus. Not until He voluntarily took the cup of the sins of mankind upon Himself so that all the curses that could enter in to people, entered in to Him instead. The price paid entirely, now ours for the receiving - without wavering or fleeing when threatened by curses coming our way. 

     When God's Word says that He is coming back for a Bride without spot or wrinkle, those are the smallest defects not the big flaws of human beings. Like Job's opening that gave Satan legal entry/access to bring curses upon him. These spots and wrinkles are more like the wavering or fleeing instead of trusting that sometimes plagues us all . . . if we are honest about it.