So, yesterday, I had an interesting experience. I was seeking jobs on a website and found one that would be a perfect short time fit for me and I applied for it. The person needed help that day so would be contacting the one they chose within hours. I also have an immediate need for an investment I must make in my books and was praying about how to raise those funds. So, I found this site where I could put my ask out there. But I really didn't feel so comfortable with it because the essence and the actual name of it was begging. I had just said earlier in the day that I was not a beggar. I debated with myself back and forth to find a justification for using the site to meet my need and actually took time to write and post an ask. However, while I was wasting time doing that, the person with the job reached out to me and asked if I was immediately available. But I saw his email 20 minutes after he sent it. Needless to say, the job went to someone else.
As I prayed this morning, I was led to "cut down the asherah poles in my life". I've read plenty of references to asherah in the Bible but really wanted to understand the meaning so I could obey God from a place of knowledge and understanding. To summarize my research, Asherah was considered the createss goddess and equal or in partnership with to God. She is associated with prostitution and fertility, hence the poles or trees used to worship it.
What I took away was three areas in life where I and maybe others can miss the blessings of God.
1-Misplaced loyalty to people, jobs or institutions that prevent you from pursuing the Kingdom of God to the fullness God desires
2-Prostituting or subjecting yourself to people in the hopes of gaining what you want by giving them what you should not and do not want to give
3-Begging from others for what God already said He would give you but you lack the patience to wait for.
I obviously disconnected from the begging site and uprooted, grinded and burned up every spiritual asherah pole in my life, identified and unidentified. Now, don't misconstrue this blog. I was not consciously aware of any idols in my life and I continually seek to ensure there are none. But God knows what is going on in the spirit realm more than we. So, if He says they are there, I move forward to remove them. I refuse to let spiritual pride or my "position" in ministry cause me to think I am above or have been delivered from every possible thing; even in 2014, there is still none perfect or good but God (Mark 10:18). But I share these things at the risk of being misquoted or wrongly judged so that we all can grow and come into what God has promised. Gideon's cutting down his father's asherah pole preceded the great victory over the Midianites (Judges 6-7). God promised to do great wonders for the children of Israel that all the nations around them would see if they obeyed Him and cut down all the enemy's idols (Exodus 34:10-14). So, I choose to remove any and everything that is hindering me from enjoying the life God promised me. Amen.
It is time to walk in full obedience and trust in God. In the remaining hours of 2014 going forward, let's live life God's way remembering we belong to a holy kingdom that cannot be moved or overcome. Yet, we overcome all things because of our relationship to the Almighty, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 2 Kings 23:6 ( context 1-25). He, alone, shall we serve.
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