Witness Protection Program

Easter Sunday was another day as a shut-in for me. Not because of the weather, which was certainly a hinderance for some, but because I have huge anxieties about stepping out the front door as it is. That statement alone is offering some insight as to why I'm on my computer all day long. I read a large number of posts yesterday as I browsed the web for spiritual food. Of course I possess a number of lovely Bibles from which I may find comfort but I was looking to humanity to share it with. People all over the planet were spending the majority of Easter Sunday keeping it holy, lifting up the name of their saviour in praise, with song, and, of course, prayer.

This morning I got up and moved to my computer as usual but instead of looking to humanity, internet friends, or even the wonderful website hosting muscial ministries I happily registered with yesterday, I started pounding my keyboard to begin a new post right here on my own blog. There is something I have wanted to get out of my system. These thoughts need to be "off-loaded" before I resume my usual activity of simply staying out of harm's way. Since there was not one reference to my query as I was reading yesterday's posts, all were exclusively about other people's "take" on this most holy of days, I am driven to speak from the Holy Spirit about something that was not addressed at all.

From Wikipedia: Witness protection is protection of a threatened witness, before, during and after a trial, usually by police. While a witness may only require protection until the conclusion of a trial, some witnesses are provided with new identity and may live out the rest of their lives under government protection.
Witness protection is usually required in trials against organized crime, where law enforcement sees a risk for witnesses to be intimidated by colleagues of defendants. It is also used at war crime trials.

Notice in the description of above that there is no mention of the power of prayer for the witness. For the average joe or jane anywhere in the world, the power of prayer is heavily relied upon to seal off the sinful world. For the last six months I have been haunted by two words - Witness Protection. While on a professional level this hearing voices is labeled "suffering hallucinations", I call it listening to the Holy Spirit. And I've wondered about it. Why does that phrase keep going through my head?

Now I know why. Yesterday, all day long, the whole world proclaimed itself saved, same as I do, all the time. Saved from my sins surely is what you are bound to think. What the world didn't share with me yesterday was a sense of being saved from the sins of the mean-hearted as well.

The average well-adjusted person doesn't necessarily need this kind of protection. Or do they? My point comes full circle here: that all this time I've been "hiding" from my oppressor (the one that wants me to believe I have failed, you know him as the devil) I have, unbeknownst to me, been under a divine witness protection program. Today I will acknowledge this gift of serenity and move on with my life. One step at a time and praising the Heavens and His watchful angels all along the way. Now, as a servant of our Lord Jesus, I wonder how I am going to serve Him today. No doubt there will come a small quiet voice again to steer me down the path intended for me. To witness once again. Please pray for me, as I do for you.