FAITH CAPSULE: Be conscious to avoid a monitor in your life.
Genesis 19
Who is monitoring your life without your knowledge?
Such should be identified as the inquisitor of your life.
One who inquires about another can be unduly harsh, severe, or hostile about the life.
God identifies Job as an integrity, blameless, and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil. (Job 2:3)
The identity of Job, by God, is not an excuse not to be excused from an inquisitor.
An inquisitor can be family or a friend.
The wife of Job, as his inquisitor, was discouraging enough, but Job could not be discouraged.
His wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9)
Job responds to his wife as one who knows God.
God saw Job as a man of integrity, but his wife saw him differently.
The wife saw him as wasting time by waiting on God.
Are you experiencing an inquisitor in your life, or are you an inquisitor in the life of others?
Who is the inquisitor that is discouraging your walk with God?
Can you perceive the inquisitor of your life to know how to avoid such in your life?
At the time of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot and his wife received the direction of God to escape destruction.
Genesis 19:17 records, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:17) Just as they advanced on the route of escape, the wife of Lot could not obey the direction of God but questioned God by her action of disobedience as she became a pillar of salt.
In the deliverance plan of God to escape sudden death, the wife of Lot was an inquisitor.
The Bible records that the wife of Lot looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.(Genesis 19:26)
She acted as an inquisitor, unconsciously questioning God.
Having a monitor unconsciously can be painfully challenging.
Often, a negative inquisitor denies the blessing in place for life.
For example, there were miracles by Jesus on every ground, but not in His city of Nazareth.
The people were inquisitors wanting to know the source of His wisdom and the work of His hand. In the eyes of His people, He was just the son of a carpenter, the mere son of Joseph and Mary.
The Bible records the response of Jesus to the inquisition of His people: “But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house. He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.” (Mark 6:4-5)
Are you an inquisitor of the messenger of God, or are you a messenger of God experiencing inquisitor in your life?
Will you stop being an inquisitor in the life of one who is answering to the assignment of God?
Prayer for today: Pray not to become a victim of an inquisitor or not to be a victim of the negative inquisition of this world.