Prov. 26:2

"Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, So a curse without cause shall not alight." Prov. 26:2

Like all of you, I have gone through various "stages" in my spiritual development. The new believer stage happened for me some years ago. That moved into the next stage, you know the one; the stage where you wonder why you exist, why God chose you, and why does anyone care? The key statement in this stage, seems to be, "Does anyone love me?" After this stage, I moved into the serious stuff. I call it the "late adolescent, early adulthood" stage. That is the time when we are really struggling with what God wants us to do with our lives. Does He want us in "specialized Christian ministry"? You know; does He want me to be a preacher or something?

Later on we really get into the crazy things. I moved into a charismatic spiritual church. We talked about the gifts of the Holy Spirit.. and wondered which one or ones we had. We experimented with all of them. We played like we were "super spiritual" not wanting anything we said to be negative lest the door be opened for the enemy to get a hold of our souls and cause us serious problems. We were content to look at the Charismatic verses and the promises and live by those.

It is during this stage that I began to examine the subject of demons and demonology. Did demons exist? Jesus dealt with them. Do they exist now? There is no reason to believe they don't. Do they possess people like they did in Jesus' day? It sure seems like it. Can they possess God's children? That one was up for debate. I studied many arguments either way...and concluded that as is often the case, the arguments came down to semantics. How did the writer define "possess" and "oppress"?

In the process of this examination, I found today's little verse toward the end of Proverbs. You see, we honestly believed that we could be cursed by some evil person and some great calamity would befall us. We certainly watched who we spend time with! We also spent a lot of time "pleading the blood of Jesus" over ourselves, our families, our homes, our houses, our pets, our friends, our church... Today's verse gave me a great relief from this spiritual schizophrenia that plagued me.

Solomon tells us that curses are like sparrows. Have you ever watched one of those little fellows? They never stand still. Watching one in the fields the other evening. He was rustling through the mulch under a bush. It sounded like some kind of animal was digging to the Philippines! For such a little fellow, he sure made a loud noise... and he did it for many minutes, never resting, always scrounging for bugs. After a thorough search of the area, he flitted to another area... never once stopping for breath. He just dug and flitted, dug and flitted. If I only had half of his energy!

Solomon tells us that unwarranted curses are like that. They can't land and hang upon the unsuspecting believer, because there is no just cause. Some witch or warlock can't lay a curse on any believer just because that individual is a believer in Jesus. A past president of the United States was known as the "Teflon president" because none of his indiscretions would stick to him.

Well, I have news for you. You are a Teflon Christian if you do your best to remain pure in Jesus. No curse can stick to you! You are indeed "covered by the blood of Jesus!" And the best part is this: you don't have to plead for it on a daily basis. It is given to you freely by our Savior. He took the curses for us. He paid the penalty. He covers us with His protective coating! Hallelujah, Amen and Amen.