"Please Be Careful"

Scripture: " ... Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm." -Psalms 105:15

As children growing up, we often heard our parents tell us whenever we went on a field trip, riding our bike, playing on the swings, and other things one important phrase. That phrase was simply "Please be careful". They told us this because they did not want us to get hurt and therefore, have to get bandaged up or go to the hospital. If truth were told, many of us took heed and many of us did not take heed. I bet many of you have scars from an incident where you were not careful. In the Kingdom of God, this principle is just as valuable as well. We have to be careful when dealing with people because we may be entertaining angels unaware. We have to be careful dealing with people because they may carrying spirits that you do not need or desire. Today's text provides us yet another thing we must be careful about as followers of Jesus Christ.

Our focal book today is the longest book in the Bible, Psalms. Within this particular chapter, we find the writer praising the Lord for the things He has done and just encouraging the people to praise Him. Within this encouragement, we find some instruction as well. This instruction is what has led us to today's text.

The writer begins today's text by saying, "Touch not mine anointed". What God is telling you and me on today is to please be careful when it comes down to His anointed! In other words, when people want to talk about you, that comes with a price! Sometimes, the price is deadly and otherwise, the price often leaves one out in the cold. As men and women of God, we must have enough love one for the other that we are careful of the things we say and do. If truth were told, each and every one of you, are anointed by God, if you are washed in the blood of the Lamb. Because of this, people must revere that and in turn, we must respect that as well.

The writer gives us further instruction. The text is finalized when the writer says, "and do my prophets no harm". In other words, be careful about the things you say about God's prophets. Who are God's prophets? Those who have the gift of prophecy, your respective pastors, and others God have used to confirm things within your life. With this being said, God is telling you and I to do them no harm. You have to be VERY careful when you are talking about your man of God because He's God's man and your prophet. If you are saying disparaging things about him, God will hold you accountable. When we talk about someone who walks in the gift of prophecy and we say negative things about them, there's a price to pay and the price is whatever God deems necessary! I know for a fact that there have been friends of mine who have said wrong and disparaging things about God's prophets and God did some crucial things to them. Ladies and gentlemen, it's key to watch what you say when it comes to your fellow brother and sister and God's prophets!

In closing, our parents told us to be careful so that we would not get hurt. In the same light, the psalmist gave us the same advice so we would not get hurt when it comes to dealing with God's people. I encourage you to continuously love one another as Christ has loved you and to be careful and leery of the things you say about His people, because, just like you, they are anointed and some of them may even be God's prophets!