Zechariah 10
The Cure of Souls!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, October 18.
Spiritual problems require spiritual solutions! This is a principle that cannot be ignored because applying a legal, psychological, or biological treatment to a diseased soul is no solution at all; it’s putting a Band-Aid on a gushing artery wound. So many people stubbornly refuse to get help when it comes to the matters of their soul, forgetting that divorce, disease, and death are spiritual issues first. Zechariah 10:2-4 is a convincing proof of our need to turn to God for help in times of spiritual crisis:
For the teraphim [household idols] speak iniquity, and the diviners see lying visions and tell false dreams; they comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd. “My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the male goats; for the Lord of hosts has visited His flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like His majestic horse in battle. From them will come the cornerstone, from them the tent peg, from them the bow of battle, from them every ruler, all of them together.
The people had turned to household idols and divination for help, which caused them to become like sheep being led to the slaughter. God diagnosed the problem as a lack of spiritual leadership, so the people were receiving no soul care. Don’t be mistaken, there were civil and religious leaders, but the people needed the cure for their soul, not a Band-Aid. Moved by compassion, God promised to send the Messiah, who would be the cornerstone, the tent peg, the bow of battle, and the ruler – the cure of souls!
Seize the moment and find the cure for your soul by listening to the voice of Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd of your soul, who promises in John 10:27-28, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.”
God bless you!
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