Strength In The Lord

Section Three
Blessed Preservation

Chapter Six
Strength in the Lord
(First of Three Parts)

Psalms 84: 5a. “Blessed is the man whose strength is in You…”

Within the utterance of this statement, the Psalmists use “owz” to describe “strength”. It carries a meaning of “force, security, majesty, and praise.” It is a definition characterized in “boldness, might, and power”. In this part, I will discuss the concept that YAH is our strength, His charge to seek that strength, the demise of the arrogant, and the benefits of obedience.

Moses sings in Exodus 15: 2, “The Lord is my strength and song; and He has become my salvation”. David expresses similarly in 1 Chronicles 16: 27. “Honor and majesty are before Him; strength and gladness are in His place.” Even Job weighs in on the subject in 12: 2. “With Him is strength and prudence. The deceived and the deceiver are His.”

It is the wise that recognize and praise YAH for His awesome majesty. It is even wiser to seek that strength, even pine for it and chase after it. It is our shepherd king David that speaks wisely in 1 Chronicles 16: 11. “Seek the Lord and His strength; seek His face evermore.” David led by example. He sang in Psalms 27: 4, “One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life”. To dwell in His presence is to abide in His strength.

Yet, there are those that fail to heed the admonition of Proverbs 3: 5-6. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” They blindly go on, not realizing the demise of their choice. Proverbs 14: 12 says, “There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death”.

In their own arrogance, they lean to the strength of their ways and ideals. They even justify their delusion when they equate YAH’s pleasure to their adapting to the ways and ideals of the culture and society with which they live. Such arrogance led YAH’s own children to captivity and personal destruction.

YAH spoke of these through Ezekiel in 24: 21. “Behold I will profane my sanctuary, your arrogant boast, the desire of your eyes, the delight of your soul; and your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.” The prophet also says in 33: 28, “For I will make the land most desolate, her arrogant strength shall cease, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through”. And Amos says in 3: 11, “An adversary shall be all around the land; He shall sap your strength from you, and your palaces will be plundered”.

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