The Best Within

by on December 24, 2020

The Best Within

(#356 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)

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It’s a Spiritual Kingdom not a physical kingdom.

Repent, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. (Matthew 4:17)

I must preach the Kingdom of the Mighty One, because for this purpose I have been sent. (Luke 4:43)

The Kingdom does not come with observation… For indeed the Kingdom of the Mighty One is within you. (Luke 17:20-21)

My Kingdom is not of this world… My Kingdom is not from here. (John 18:36)

And so it is fitting that we consider that the scriptures speak of this Spiritual Kingdom and Spiritual matters first, the physical merely being an effect or manifestation of the Spiritual reality. With this in focus, let’s take a look at some ideas with our Kingdom glasses on:

Goliath the Gittite vs. David

1. Goliath (from the root galah): A Philistine giant; (to exile; go into captivity)

2. Gittite (a man belonging to the city of Gath): of a wine-press; (treading out; pressing)

3. David (from the root dode): loving; loved one; (to boil)

The Hebraic meaning or root of each word gives us insight into the Spiritual Kingdom; the eternal Kingdom of Light. Goliath is the darkness within you that has been banished due to the renewed spiritual influence of Yahshua the Messiah. Although old ways of thinking continue to press on your mind, desiring to return and destroy that which has been renewed, love that has reached its fullest potential (boiling over) will put to death (behead) the ever-pressing ego (self).

And so when your “self” entertains thoughts such as, “Am I a dog, that you come against me with sticks” (1 Samuel 17:43), you must quickly recognize that this is only your ego attempting to defy the Light which shines within you through faith in Yahshua the Messiah. Of course the old you is a dog! It is a dog ever ready and willing to return to its vomit (2 Peter 2:22). This can be avoided as the David (love) within you overcomes the darkness. It’s all within; life is all in the mind loved one, and the mind is Yahweh’s Sanctuary, if you are willing to receive it.

After this I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will set it up. (Acts 15:16 from Amos 9:11)



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