Watchtower….

 Watchtower….

Most years some of our family goes to a corn maze…plus, a pumpkin patch, when it is  fall harvest time…one year, we even got to fly over the valley in a Mission Aviation Plane, observing the mazes below us as we made a big loop circling corn patches and pastures filled with ripened corn, grain and a multitude of crops…

One commonality with the corn mazes was a tower placed somewhere in the corn maze…a place to climb to get your bearing in the maze, a place to find out how to get out of the maze or just gaze around…a “watchtower “….

Watchtowers are mentioned several times in the Bible…usually there were watchtowers built into the city walls for observation of activities, see an enemy approaching…but other watchtowers were built in the fields where the crops were planted…a watchman could watch his crops, watch if an enemy approached as well…it was a place of safety…or alarm….

As a parent, I remember when my toddlers would  run and grab my or my husband’s legs when we were in a new or different situation…we were their tower or safe place…or ask to ride on my husband’s shoulders so they could see new vistas instead of everyone’s legs…they felt safe on their “tower”….

Habakkuk wanted to see or hear  what 

God had to say to him…he watched and wanted to listen to the answers that he asked…he waited …

Other times, we are the watchman for others or ourselves …a protective tower……God is our protection , as very strong tower or protection…refuge…

In Jesus we have the strongest tower…watchman…

Thank YOU…

 I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts;I will look to see what he will say to me,and what answer I am to give to this complaint.

Hab.2.1

 For you have been my refuge,a strong tower against the foe.

Ps.61.3

 I will listen to what God the Lord says;he promises peace to his people, his faithful servants—but let them not turn to folly.

Ps.85.8

 The name of the Lord is a fortified tower;the righteous run to it and are safe.

Prov.18.10

 And the lookout shouted,“Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower;every night I stay at my post.

Isa.21.8

  This is what the Lord says:“Stand at the crossroads and look;ask for the ancient paths,ask where the good way is, and walk in it,and you will find rest for your souls.But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ I appointed watchmen over you and said,‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’But you said, ‘We will not listen.’

Jer.6.16-17

 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.

Ezek.3.17

Blessed be the name of the LORD…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYrcrP1ysjw&list=RDbYrcrP1ysjw&start_radio=1

https://bibledictionarytoday.com/words/watchtower/

https://www.bibleplaces.com/watchtowers/

https://bible-history.com/sketches/watchtower

Plus more….