Opus 2025: 562: Monday Pulpit: Eggs in Your Nose

The pastor, who usually teaches the adult Sunday school class, was out of town and we had a substitute.  Because the original substitute had backed out at the last minute, the man giving the lesson had not had as much time as he would’ve liked to prepare what he had to say.  He did what many of us do when we’re in that situation, you go to something familiar.  His choice was the 23rd Psalm.

We had a good time of discussion and I will be pondering this passage of scripture this week.  What’s amazing is the weird things that stick in your mind when you should be thinking on a higher level.  He was going over the care of sheep, and when he got to the point where it says “he anointeth my head with oil”, he pointed out that one of the problems sheep have is the bugs and flies and stuff that get into their nose and eyes.  I hadn’t thought about that.  When I thought of the anointing, I thought of kings and prophets, not sheep.

In the course of the discussion, he mentioned how the flies would lay eggs in the nose of the sheep.  I’m not sure if he came up with it or if I thought of it as he was talking, but I got this horrible picture of Satan laying eggs in my nose.  I’m not sure how to apply that but it certainly sounds like something I don’t want to happen in my life.

How do we keep Satan from laying eggs in our nose?  By the constant anointing of the Holy Spirit of God.  By constantly being in His presence.  By constantly allowing Him to reach out and touch us.  That happens in worship, and worship happens in so much of our lives and we don’t think of it as that, but it is.

So as you contemplate Christmas, think about how God has reached out to us not only as the race of mankind, but as individuals.  Let His presence be a constant barrier against the eggs of Satan.

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