Numbers 22:23 When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, it turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat it to get it back on the road.
“Thoughts are a commodity in the spiritual realm.”
Unspoken words are non-verbal communication such as thoughts, feelings, or messages conveyed through non-verbal cues like body language, facial expressions and silence. God’s creation both animate and inanimate are sensitive to the will, ways and the wrath of God. “For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now” (Romans 8:22). Living and nonliving things that do not have a mouth or mind to express their feelings in words are more responsive to sin, disorder and curses.
Balaam was a sorcerer who was summoned to cast a curse on the children of Israel who were travelling through Moab. The king of Moab was intimidated by the grace of God that was hovering over the hoard. Hence, he deployed the most powerful warlock who practiced divination in the area to pronounce a spell that would destroy the chosen generation of the Lord. The Lord God appeared to Balaam and warned him not to go, yet Balaam rushed in greed and selfish ambition to go against the Lord. The angel of the Lord stood with a drawn sword to kill Balaam. The mystic who practiced divination could not see or sense the presence of an angry angel but his donkey saw him. Hence, he changed the route and avoided the sword. The insensitive sorcerer beat the donkey to force it back onto the road.
Greed and selfish ambition are the cause of insensitivity to the plan of God. The Lord speaks to us through different ways. He uses creation to remind us of His greatness. However, greed, gluttony and selfishness blind the spiritual eyes.
Sensitivity to non-verbal cues:
- Perversion: Perversion in the thoughts, desires and wants, numb our spiritual sensitivity to God’s non-verbal cues.
- Pride: The LORD mocks the mockers but is gracious to the humble (Proverbs 3:34).
- Purity: Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God (Matthew 5:8).
Purity and humility make us sensitive to God’s non-verbal vocabulary and cues.
Prayer: Dear Holy Spirit, make me sensitive and alert to your non-verbal language, signs and prompts. Amen.
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