Hold Your Head High – No Need To Be Embarrassed
Psalm 27:6, “And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me:”
Our King is a conquering King! When a king would overthrow another king in battle, the back of his garment would be cut off and his back side would be exposed. The word ’embarrassed’ comes from this warfare tradition. The conquered king would be paraded through the streets with his ‘back-side bared’.
We can hold our head high because the battle has already been done and the enemy of God has been paraded the enemy of His in disgrace.
Colossians 2:15 tells us, “[And] having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” In Greek ‘made a shew’ means to ‘expose in disgrace.’
I also love Isaiah 61:7 in the Amplified Version: “Instead of your [former] shame you will have a double portion; and instead of humiliation your people will shout for joy over their portion. Therefore in their land they will possess double [what they had forfeited]; everlasting joy will be theirs.”
In this Hurricane/TS Harvey in the south Texas area, there is so much hopelessness. I trust that the next phase in their recovery is double honor.
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