Wizard of ‘Is’
Psa 27:1 <A Psalm of David.> The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Personal computers have come such a long way in how easy it is to install and begin using programs, utilities and new hardware. Instead of having to know a mountain of technical information having to do with a specific application, they’ve developed something called a ‘wizard’, a little step by step guide for setting up all the necessary information by just answering a few simple questions. By clicking a little box or pressing a button choice you can easily indicate how you want things to be and get desired results without have to come up with the technical jargon required by the operating system. The wizard does it all for you– if you say something ‘is’ this way, then you will get a very specific result. You can be successfully up and running without hardly knowing you did anything.
There is a very similar process taking place in this passage from Psalms. While you could get very technical in the removal of fear by going through all kinds of psychoanalysis and trying to somehow remove all the damaging elements of the past, there is a little wizard that’s been given to us in our relationship with the Father. It simplifies all of the intricacies and complications, very simply converting an ‘is’ of light and salvation to removal of ‘man’ fear. In like manner, where God ‘is’ the strength of one’s life, there will be no one to be afraid of. Where these elements of light, salvation and strength have been clicked off as existing in the ‘is’ column there can be no other result but fear removal. Without exerting any significant effort, one can be up and running completely uninhibited by trepidation of any kind.
Throughout the Word there are so many of these little ‘is’ wizards provided that will take us completely through an otherwise challenging and frustrating process to complete victory in successful and productive living. Where He ‘is’ the choice, allowed to really be God, there is a direct bypass of the limitations of our own strength and understanding to the incredible provision of complete salvation in Christ. Discovering and applying these ‘is’ conversions is the great privilege and joy of all who have made worship their life.
