Flowers Will Grow in My Valley

Psalm 23:4 (NIV)

“Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”

Follow the red threads! 

The blood of Christ runs symbolically throughout the Bible. The richness of truth is so deep its next level.  A spiritual upgrade. There is so much depth left to uncover for it is written that the night is near:

[Do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we [first] believed. The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let's rid ourselves of the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let's behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and debauchery, not in strife and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to [its] lusts. [Romans 13:11-14 NASB20]

I know know this is my atonement and reconciliation story with my JEHOVAH, the beginning and the end, my Alpha and Omega.  

1. And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. [Exodus 6:3 KJV]
2. That [men] may know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth. [Psalm 83:18 KJV]
3. Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation. [Isaiah 12:2 KJV]
4. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH [is] everlasting strength: [Isaiah 26:4 KJV]
5. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said [to] this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen. [Genesis 22:14 KJV]
6. And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi: [Exodus 17:15 KJV]
7. Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it [is] yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. [Judges 6:24 KJV]

For JEHOVAH is my KING and I begin my new journey as a fervent and bold slave for Christ: 

“The LORD Will Provide” = Jehovahjireh

For He provided His only Son for the salvation of the world.

“The Lord is my Banner” = Jehovahnissi

For my battle is the Lords. 

“The Lord is Peace” = Jehovahshalom

For the Lord is my perfect peace. 

Yet why am I so afraid? For Johovah lives inside this temple! Yet I am brought to my knees by this for I am but just a man with unclean lips living among people with unclean lips.  I was but a prisoner 'til He bought my bond with blood. For I am Barabbas. 

Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!" [Isaiah 6:8 NASB20]

I know not what to herald other than what is already written. A story of this first earths beginning and the end. There is not a redemption story without a story of coming judgment. 

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be discovered. Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat! But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found spotless and blameless by Him, at peace, and regard the patience of our Lord [as] salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all [his] letters, speaking in them of these things, in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as [they do] also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unscrupulous people and lose your own firm commitment, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him [be] the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. [2 Peter 3:10-18 NASB20]

This is my new burden and so the Spirit sweats my eyes in dismay:

When He approached [Jerusalem,] He saw the city and wept over it, [Luke 19:41 NASB20]

"It is better for him if a millstone is hung around his neck and he is thrown into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to sin. [Luke 17:2 NASB20]

The Spirit provides the strength for forgiveness. I repent and must, like Samuel and Agag, "שָׁסַף the snake שָׁסַף"

perhaps to

 find my purpose. 

(see H8158 for the Hebrew)

In the valley my faith grew stronger for I trusted the Lord. I mediated his Word more in the last 6 months than I have all my life. And now I am changed at my core! It is in the valley where your faith grows.

 He plants the seeds and sends the rain for the lilies in my valley! Eternity awaits.  

For when Debar Yehovah woke me in the night with "it is finished" reverberating in my skull with clarity and conviction - it really was finished. I thought only of John 19:30 at the time but there is another verse with those words that makes it more clear now for two awoke - one to light and the other to darkness. A unyoking. 

(James 1:12-16 KJV) "Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren."

Temptation and darkness which leads to death can be defeated - but only with faith in Jesus and steps of obedience from a heart of repentance.   

[Rom 6:16 ESV] "Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?"

[Col 2:13-14 ESV] "And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross."