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I Will Awaken the Dawn

Judges 5:31
“So may all your enemies perish, O LORD! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” And the land had rest for forty years.

The same psalmist who just personified the heavenly stars as heavenly embodiments of spiritual entities now personifies the bright, morning star around which our mortal lives revolve by the masculine “he” and “his.” As if to suggest that the sun that reigns over our pale, little earth is representing another spiritual Being at the center of the cosmic order: the brightest of all heavenly bodies, and the mightiest of all celestial warriors, and the very Light that gives light to all men—the absence of which our world would cease to be. Oh, but hear the chorus of Deborah and Barak as they sing together with full heart and voice in their own unique tones! Hear their yearning after the face of God! Reflect on the mission of sanctification afresh, which is to be refined day by day under Heaven’s refining, redefining Sunrays.

But how might we subdue the enemies of Almighty God these next 24 hours? How might we expose the corrupt deeds of politicians and judges and litigators and public officials? How might the body of believers, full of individual members with diverse vocations, skills, and opportunities, illumine a society so enveloped by the shadows of death and despair? By fixing our eyes on the Son of Righteousness, that’s how! By being like Him in all we think, speak, and do. To be rich in love and poor in heart; to be full of light in a world so dark; to speak truth to power and defend the weak; to know when to be silent and when to speak; to not bow to the crowds or be bribed by elites; to bleed prayers in Gethsemanes—not show off in the streets; to be pure in all motives, seeking only God’s will; to call out to the deluge and the devils, ‘Be still!’

See, friend, never become so dismayed by the surrounding restlessness and forget that Almighty God brought you into this world and redeemed you and is even now sanctifying you for the awesome purpose of being a candle in the darkness. Pray for a new dawn for this present generation! Then, by your good faith, awaken it.

 

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