“Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.” Deuteronomy 23:5
As Christian we all need to understand that our life will
have up’s and down’s. Sometimes we feel blessed and sometimes we feel cursed.
However, we never need to forget to thank God for the good as well as the bad.
We are the children of God, before the foundation of the world God elected us
to be His and in time God sent the Holy Spirit to bring us to Jesus Christ. God
sent His Beloved Son into this world and allowed Him to surrender Himself to
Satan and the lost heathens to have His heel bruised Gen. 3:15, to die and be
buried and to raise on the third day, shed His glorious blood to cleanse us from
our sins. God loves us and therefore God has done this for us, God will never
let His children down, EVER! We know that God has ordained or predestinated our
life, we do not live on chance, nothing is chance with God’s children. Here in
our text we see God turn a curse into a blessing, why, “…because the LORD
thy God loved thee.” It did not matter that Balaam was hired to curse them,
all that mattered was that they were loved of God. God’s love never expires, “The
LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an
everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” Jeremiah
31:3 But what about the curse, how did God turn the curse into a blessing?
Because God is all powerful, God is the only source of sovereign, independent
power, all powers are given from God, even to Satan and all demons. However, we
can also narrow all powers in all creation down to two beings, Deity and
Satanic. God proved to us His power and authority over Satan with His prophet
Job. “And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save
his life.” Job 2:6 Here we see Satan ask God for the power to take
everything Job had in his life, but Satan could not take Jobs life because
God limited Satan’s power. This is why Balaam’s curse would not harm God’s
people, God turned it in a blessing. As Christians we need never fear the
powers that be, Satan, the haters, our governments, nor the world. We live
every moment of our earthly life under the power and authority of God. God has
given us this promise, “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to
come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate
us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38 –
39 Therefore, we must be content with our life, with what we have in life, and
to everything that happens in life. Everyday is a blessing from God, therefore
we should never just praise God for the good times but for every event and
happening in our life good or bad. God has set your entire life before you and
you will live it to whatever God has decreed. A lot of Christians throughout
time have died at the hands of Satan’s people, including Jesus Christ. We who
are so blessed never need to feel less blessed that anyone else because, as
Paul put it, “I Am what I am by God’s grace” therefore God can allow a
curse on us to fulfill it’s purpose or God can turn a curse into a blessing. God
taught us in Romans 9:21 “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of
the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?” God
controls the clay; the clay does not control the Potter. Everyone and
everything created are instruments in God’s hands, therefore if Satan can curse
us God has allowed it, to bless Him. Just as it was with Job, God allowed this
event to show His power in Job. While Satan and heathenism have great powers, God
is the ultimate power.
