The Curse Shall Not Land

In Today’s Proverb: “Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest [i.e. land].” (26:2-NIV)

The “curse” is the death and destruction of all forms and of all kinds, which were loosed into this earth upon Adam and Eve’s sin. It is sin’s “reward” (or result).

However, as the analogy in this proverb indicates, the curse has only rightful access to the “deserving”, which in Biblical terms, is the sin-ful. All other targets are inappropriate. The problem: All men have sinned, therefore all of man and all that belongs to man is “deserving” of the curse. Man, and the earth which was placed into his hands by God, are in fact, an appropriate landing.

Then by the mercies and grace of God, one came in whom there was no sin. He was not “deserving” of the curse. He was not a legally appropriate target for the curse! In Him the curse had no landing (or resting place). In life, He walked above the curse. His name of course, was Jesus.

But through His great love and sacrifice, Jesus, Who was not “deserving” of the curse, actually took the curse upon Himself, in our place, who were “deserving” of the curse… in order to make us then, legally, “undeserving” of the curse. This is Redemption! (A price paid – an exchange made).

Now, as the Redeemed believers in Jesus, we stand “undeserving” of the curse and all of its effects! It has no resting place in us! By faith in the promise of the Word, and in the legality of His redemption, we refuse its “landing” in our lives! Because of Jesus, we can apply today's Proverb to ourselves!

Even the Psalmist wrote of this redemption:

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day [v.5]… it shall not come nigh thee…

…Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked [vv.7-8]

…There shall no evil befall [i.e. land upon] thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling [v10]. Psalm 91