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Turning Things Right-side Up in an Upside-down World
For a long time, the Lord has been showing me that when
Jesus turned the tables over in the temple, He was not
turning them upside-down. When He turned the tables
over, the Lord was turning them right-side up! He was
righting wrongs, making e very crooked path straight. He
was turning things around – wrongs into rights.
This may sound strange to our carnal minds, yet we need
to understand the difference. Reading the account of
Jesus’ escapade in the courts of the temple without
understanding can lead to confusion. We can jump to all
kinds of conclusions regarding His actions.
The point of this article is not to address every
statement He was making as He “cleaned house.” What I
want to focus on is the perspective. What appeared as
madness to some was really putting an end to the
madness. It’s all in the perspective.
This premise of turning things around is
something the Lord wants us to understand in a greater way.
There are things in our own temple (our
bodies, our lives, our homes, our relationships, our jobs,
our houses of worship, our towns, etc.) that appear to be
normal, because it’s just the way it’s always been done, but
these things may actually be upside-down and need to be
turned over.
When Jesus begins to clean out your temple,
He’s going to turn some things around.
It may feel like things are being turned
upside-down, but let’s remember that perception is not
reality. We must ask the Lord to give us Hi s
perspective. When we see things from His perspective, we may
find that what seems to be in disarray and upside-down is
actually being moved into proper position.
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Why am I releasing this message today?
So many of God’s people are going through
some of the most difficult trials of their lives right now.
Many devout believers are doubting everything – some even
doubt whether they even know the Lord or have been in His
will. It’s a hard time right now for those who are committed
to following our Lord, the Christ.
If we understand t hat this turning of the
tables in our temples is not a bad thing – it’s not failure,
and it’s not rejection – then we can hang on a little
longer. We must persevere to the end.
This mess we find ourselves in is actually a
turn in the right direction. Things are being properly
aligned and put into position for the purposes God has for
each of our lives.
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In the book of Genesis, we see Joseph, son of
Jacob the patriarch, rejected, betrayed, and sold into
slavery by his own brothers. After many years of servitude,
a prison term and exile from everything he knew and loved,
Joseph had an incredible turn! ;He was elevated to
Pharaoh’s right-hand man, second in all of
Egypt. Eventually, he was even reconciled to his brothers,
but when his father died, they all became
frightened. Believing that Joseph would now seek out revenge
for what they had done to him early in life, they approached
him for mercy. Joseph’s response to his brothers regarding
their mistreatment and the ills that beset him applies to us
as well.
Joseph told his brothers that what they had
meant for harm toward him, the Lord had used for good.
So, it is with us. The ways of the world are
not the ways of the Lord. It’s an upside-down world. There
is a way that seems right to a man, but its end thereof is
death. (Proverbs 14:12)
We’re trying to stand up-right in an
upside-down world. That means that our tables have to be
turned. What the enemy has meant for harm must be turned so
that the Lord can use it for good. – Even if it hurts.
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As I was praying with a friend today, the
Lord showed me a wound in a person. That wound had the
potential to be a place of great detriment to that person in
the future, and the enemy had plans to exploit it.
Just as quickly, the Lord showed me how to
pray. As we prayed, the wound was turned upside-down – which
was really right-side up – and the turn caused the wound to
turn into a shield.
What the enemy had meant for harm in this
person’s life, the Lord turned into a shield. I
literally saw the wound turned upside-down, and when the
turn was complete, in place of a wound was a shield.
I then saw words and other attacks coming
toward that wounded area of this person’s life – things
that potentially could weaken and destroy the person
emotionally, mentally and physically, but as the
attacking weapons hit the shield, they were deflected
off and were returned for good.
This person who had been wounded was not
the only beneficiary of the turning of the tables. It
also benefited others as what was sent out against the
wounded person bounced back into other people’s lives
and situations as good.
This is just another example of the type
of table turning the Lord is doing in our lives
today. Even the wounds of the past cannot stop us once
the Lord turns things right-side up.
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That which we have resisted, that which
has so repulsed us, is the very thing that is designed
to turn our worlds around. We may not understand the
change. It may be messy. It may be uncomfortable. It
might make us angry. Much as it did in the temple as
Jesus made His way through the courts.
However, this complicated, uncomfortable,
anger-provo king, hard-to-understand mess we find
ourselves in might be the thing that turns our world
right-side up.
How many people need some things to turn
around for good right now? Most of the people I know do.
Let’s recognize that what the Lord is
doing is turning things right-side up in our upside-down
world.
--- Tracy
Schellhorn --
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