April 15

Numbers 30:14 (NIV)
14 But if her husband says nothing to her about it from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or the pledges binding on her. He confirms them by saying nothing to her when he hears about them.

If I may have the latitude to take this out of its context and highlight a principle that I saw as I read. “He confirms them by saying nothing to her when he hears about them.” This really struck me as a principle of life that the Lord has set forth. There are two things that God spoke to my heart as I am pondering this. Number one is when we hear about something and remain “neutral”, we are not neutral at all, we are in agreement. I am not saying that we have to argue with everybody, but we cannot stand by and let our mind be infected with things and not take a mental stand. I don’t argue every time people say something I disagree with, but I don’t go brain numb either. I think that is what TV does to you, but I’ll save that for another time.

Number two is that when people speak things about me or “over” me, I cannot remain neutral there either. It is my responsibility to accept it or reject it. In a negative sense it will hang on me if I don’t reject it. I would suggest to go so far as to confess the truth of the Word of God over ourselves when things are said negatively about and to us. In the positive sense there can be tremendous benefit in agreeing with the comment both in mind and with our tongue. After all the power of life and death are in the tongue.

The point the Spirit spoke to me was I wasn’t to remain silent unless I agreed. Because by saying nothing, you are in agreement with what was said.