THIS LAND

I was remembering the song from the movie “Exodus”:

This land is mine God gave this land to me
This brave and ancient land to me
And when the morning sun Reveals her hills and plains
Then I see a land Where children can run free

So take my hand And walk this land with me
And walk this lovely land with me
*Tho' I am just a man When you are by my side
With the help of God I know I can be strong

(Repeat *)

To make this land our home
If I must fight, I'll fight
To make this land our own
Until I die, this land is mine.

                When I was in college I was a member of a fraternity and we had won a singing contest where I had a brief solo. After the contest some of the members were talking of next year and they wanted me to sing the song above. Over and over the first three lines have come to me periodically over the years and even more so over the last year and thus this writing.

                Now I see and see more fully why I’ve been led to this place. With so many in the body of Christ with sickness and disease of every kind I have been in prayer and asking the Lord, “What is the deal? We are to be above this stuff. What is the deal?”

                Once a few months ago when I heard this part of the song, “This land is mine, God gave this land to me”, I had the thought, “My physical body is of the earth and God gave me this body for a specific purpose (much of which is yet to be disclosed to me), so yes this land is mine and I need to defend it with the weapon Christ gave me, Truth – His word is Truth. And furthermore, since my wife and I are one flesh I need to defend her body as well.”

                You can readily see that this kind of thinking will lead to much more meditations of the heart for we are of the generation that is to take back all that the devil stole.

                More tomorrow....