SELAH – Sometimes we get in such a hurry to do what we think we ought to… like read the Word, that we skim over or feel so familiar with it that we don’t think about what it is says. This is what the “SELAH” is for, that is in the Psalms, the brakes of the Word, the “Slow down! There is something important here for you if you’ll just ponder on this for a while!” It is a point of deeper meaning, if you’ll look.
While listening to Milea read a Psalm, on a recent road trip, I did a little SELAH moment. So now, I get to give you my rendition of the Ps 143:6 Selah…
Ps 143:6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
…“as a thirst land” Thirsty land is first of all land that hasn’t been getting its share of water, for one reason or another, so unless you live where its sandy the ground gets hard and starts to shrink and crack. Now as a gardener that is not a good condition to be in. (In Minnesota we used to describe potholes on highways which were so big a VW Bug would disappear into them, in some of the ground shrinking and cracking dry times we get in KY if a skinny girl were to fall into one of these chasms she would disappear- unless her arms were out to stop her from going all the way down and visiting China.) Secondly, dry ground doesn’t absorb water well. I have come home after a huge rain and looked at my yard expecting those cracks to be gone, only to see them still there! What happens is the ground gets so hard and dry that it cannot absorb the moisture easily and expand back, a lot of the water has either run off or gone down into the cracks and wetted the earth down deep but the surface still looks the same and is still in need of more rain to fully recover. That is why, if we’ve been dry around our house before a rain comes, I will water the areas around plants and trees to get the soil ready to drink in the rain instead of letting all the rain just run off. Think of a dry hard sponge… when you first start to use the sponge, it needs a little work and lots of water to get it to the place of getting ready to absorb and hold more water. It is the same with the ground.
We too are like the earth and that sponge; we call out for the rain of God, but then not see or perceive any result. Don’t give up! He did send some, it just ran in deep to heal your ground. Call for more. Soak yourself under His spicket. You will start to see the gashes in your body or soul start to heal and become whole.
How do we get dry like that in the first place? Sometimes its sin, sometimes it is just getting too busy and we forget or put off the drink for a later time. When I get dehydrated my eyes fell low on fluids and they can get a little blurry. Not getting a regular wetting from God will warp your vision and how you perceive things. Let all that go along with any condemnation and just start fresh today with a shower, to wash, absorb and refresh (we will all appreciate it if you would :) ) Repeat as needed… Daily showers are a good thing… SELAH!!!
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