Walk the Talk.

When Christian television came to Houston, there was one bit of Christian lingo I had not heard until I heard it shouted by TV preachers:

“I am the head and NOT the tail!”

Preachers would encourage audiences to claim it, believe it.  To personally put on that phrase like a winning golfer putting on a green jacket at the Masters.  We were encouraged to identify with it and accept it by faith: I am the head and not the tail.  On YouTube the clause is as popular as ever—there seems no end to the videos with this phrase in the title.  Everyone wants to be the head and not the tail.

But few discuss the context.  In Deuteronomy 28:13, Moses says that if the Israelites will obey God’s commands, He will make them the head and not the tail, that is, they will have authority rather than servitude, they will lead, not follow.  But there is more.  If Israel does NOT obey, they will be cursed and a foreign people will take over. 

“He will be the head and YOU will be the tail” Deuteronomy 28:44. 

In Deuteronomy chapter 28, God offers Israel a choice: obey and be blessed, or disobey and be cursed.  It has nothing to do with today’s ‘name-it, claim-it’ approach to prosperity.  The promise is not in the words.  Telling yourself you are the head will not make it so.  “Claiming” it or “manifesting” it will not bring God’s blessings.  Read the chapter!  It’s no mystery: if you OBEY God, He will bless you.

We should spend less time sprinkling Bible words over ourselves meaninglessly like some holy hair spray. Instead we should use our time to study the word and put it into practice.  If you want God’s blessings, obey God. Seek Him in all things. Live a life above reproach. Clean up your life, your lust, your language.  Give Him your addictions, your anger, your selfishness.  Read the word. Do what it says.  Then you will be the head and not the tail.

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