…For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Romans 10:11
We believe and trust in Him, and we will not be put to shame. Going back to eSword, I read the following, for the word used for ‘shame’ in this verse: καταισχύνω / kataischunō / kat-ahee-skhoo’-no / From G2596 and G153; to shame down, that is, disgrace or (by implication) put to the blush: – confound, dishonour, (be a-, make a-) shame (-d).
Now if you take a look at linked verses as pointed out by the ESV, you are directed to Romans 9:30-33, where we see a bigger part of the exact Scripture that was quoted: What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Okay, before I go any further, I would like to point out that what I had in mind was not the word ‘believes’ as indicated here in the ESV, but ‘trust’. I have been writing about how, recently, I’ve been thinking about and quoting the phrase ‘Everyone who trusts in the Lord will not be put to shame’; Going through this, we see another parallel – That is, when you trust, you believe, and when you believe, you trust.
Sorry about that commercial, but moving on – based on what was quoted, we see that the phrase was from Isaiah 28:14-16; The tail end says: “therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’“
Now this is interesting, because we see the word ‘haste’ in place of ‘shame’; eSword has the following to share about the actual Hebrew word used: חוּשׁ / chûsh / koosh / A primitive root; to hurry; figuratively to be eager with excitement or enjoyment: – (make) haste (-n), ready.
Now at this point I’m tempted to haul it all in, but there are two things I’d like to look at in both Hebrew and Greek.
First, we saw ‘shame’ and ‘haste’, but let’s look at where the prophet says ‘believe’, and eSword shares: אָמַן / ‘âman / aw-man’ / A primitive root; properly to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain; once (in Isa_30:21; by interchange for H541) to go to the right hand: – hence assurance, believe, bring up, establish, + fail, be faithful (of long continuance, stedfast, sure, surely, trusty, verified), nurse, (-ing father), (put), trust, turn to the right.
Now, if we go back to ‘believe’ in the Greek, from Romans 9:33 and 10:11: πιστεύω / pisteuō / pist-yoo’-o / From G4102; to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), that is, credit; by implication to entrust (especially one’s spiritual well being to Christ): – believe (-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with. Here we see how the translations actually have BOTH believe and trust as one word. But also (and this is probably not a surprise), faith is also mentioned in both âman and pisteuō. These three come together – faith, belief, and trust. A little more from both translations, and we see a bigger picture of what having these three would mean for us – to build up, to foster, to be firm, to commit to, and so on.
Before the second thing I want to look at, I guess we can piece it all together at this point – after all, we’ve come a long way from ‘Everyone who trusts in the Lord will not be put to shame’. Take note that I will add some embellishments here to indicate how I understand some of the interpretations:
The one who believes in Christ, who has faith in Him and trusts in Him; who supports Him, or builds Him up, believing that He is permanent, true, and certain; who believes in Him in the long term, believing Him to be steadfast, sure, trusty and verified; who commits to trust in Him? This one shall not be shamed down, disgraced or put to the blush; He or she will not be confounded or dishonoured; He will not be in a hurry (?).
I’m sorry, but at this point I needed to consult more tools, so I looked to BibleHub for more verses that use chûsh – And I was vindicated in learning what I expected, which was not necessarily in line with the concordance used by eSword; it’s interesting to note that the same word was used in Job 20:2, and the New American Standard Bible interprets is as ‘inward agitation’. And, actually, the same translation points out the word as it is used in the verse we saw it in at first, it says ‘He who believes [in it] will not be disturbed.‘
So once more, unto the breach: The one who believes in Christ, who has faith in Him and trusts in Him; who supports Him, or builds Him up, believing that He is permanent, true, and certain; who believes in Him in the long term, believing Him to be steadfast, sure, trusty and verified; who commits to trust in Him? This one shall not be shamed down, disgraced or put to the blush; He or she will not be confounded or dishonoured; He will not be agitated inwardly, nor will he be disturbed.
Eat your heart out, Amplified Bible. Let’s keep going.
Here’s the second thing – I guess I couldn’t help but look at other verses in the Bible that explicitly say ‘not be put to shame’ in the Old Testament, versus the ‘haste’ we saw.
Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers.
With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.”
Isaiah 49:23
“You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you.
And my people shall never again be put to shame.
You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else.
And my people shall never again be put to shame.
Joel 2:26-27
And the ‘shame’ we see here has the following elaboration from eSword: בּוּשׁ / bûsh / boosh / A primitive root; properly to pale, that is, by implication to be ashamed; also (by implication) to be disappointed, or delayed: – (be, make, bring to, cause, put to, with, a-) shame (-d), be (put to) confounded (-fusion), become dry, delay, be long.
Now isn’t that pleasant? I mean, on top of getting more details to what it means for us to not be put to shame, did you notice something: That as we trust in the Lord, and as we believe in Him, not only shall we not be put to ‘haste’, but we wouldn’t be ‘disappointed, or delayed’? And also, we wouldn’t ‘become’ delayed, but we wouldn’t become ‘dry’ either. I see that the Maker of Time is also, truly, the Lord of the Harvest.
At this point, I’d like to apologize – seems I dragged myself, and you, into a deep hole of Greek and Hebrew. But I hope you see the value in all of this, much as I am.
I’d like to end here, but I couldn’t help but add the other parallel that I’m insisting is part of all this: We’ve established a more firm grip to a statement we say in faith – that is, indeed, as it is written, everyone who trusts in the Lord shall not be put to shame. But on the other hand, can we also say that everyone who trusts in the Lord shall be put to ‘not’ shame – everyone who trusts in the Lord shall be put to (pulls up Thesaurus) approval, honor and esteem?
Now to this end, I think a direct search would not give me the results I’m looking for. Thankfully, as I was driving and praying a while back, and indirectly speaking and meditating on ‘Everyone who trusts in the Lord shall not be put to shame’; I was led to consider the following verse:
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:4-7
We say that everyone who trusts in the Lord shall not be ‘put to shame’, as if to indicate that ‘shame’ was somewhere we were ‘put’ into; Sure, some translations fix that and would probably say we shall not be ‘ashamed’, but it’s to be said that shame is a place we’re in, just as much as it is a feeling. To that end, I think it’d make more sense to say that, we aren’t put to shame, but we ARE seated in honor – honor, that is, seated in the heavenly places with Christ Jesus.
Also, BIG bonus: Isaiah 49:23 says those who ‘wait for’ the Lord shall not be put to shame… and it’s the same ‘wait upon the Lord’ from the more famous Isaiah 40:28-31:
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.
Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Here’s the bonus: Remember where I wrote about Pastor Joedy talking about this very same verse? He DID point out the Hebrew for ‘wait’: קָוָה / qâvâh / kaw-vaw’; On top of the definitions we’re expecting (look, patiently, tarry, wait (for, on, upon)), qâvâh also means ‘to bind together (perhaps by twisting), that is, collect; (figuratively) to expect: – gather (together)’… And if memory serves me correctly, the wisdom we gathered from our good pastor was yet another perspective to what it means to wait, and therefore what it means to believe, to trust, and to have faith in the LORD: It’s to be bound together, and weaved together with Him, or, more importantly, to understand and appreciate how He, through no less than Jesus Christ Himself, saved us by binding HIMSELF and weaving HIMSELF to us!
Friends, there IS joy in our understanding how we are seated with Christ, but there is also great joy in appreciating that Christ is just as weaved into us! What a revelation!
Everyone who trusts in the Lord shall not be put to shame, for they are seated in the heavenly places with Christ Jesus.
We can also say, that because we are seated in the heavenly places with Christ Jesus, we trust in Him, and we shall not be put to shame.
Wonderful, don’t you think?
At this point I’d like to just go ahead and share that I’m still psyching myself up, coming out of a crazy and turbulent month. When I’m in an actual airplane I’m not complaining about the turbulence, more than I’m being led to pray and remember, that even in those moments, though I know I can trust the plane and/or the pilot, there’s infinitely more peace to be found in the One who made it all, the One who loved me and gave His life for me.
And as we end this month, literally in the final hour, I’m realizing that I need Him. We celebrated Thanksgiving, and recent revelations have brought me to a new Holiday, a new Season of Trustgiving… One where I know, that no matter what happens, I can trust in Jesus Christ, who bound Himself to me, so as He’s seated at the right hand of the Father, so I am seated with Him in the heavenly places… I can trust in Jesus Christ, who, just as He redefined my being, also redefined my reality – much so, that no matter what happens, I shall not be put to shame. Through Christ, I am approved, favored, liked, and loved… through pain, pleasure, and pause, through reward, consequence, and anticipation, through acceptance, rejection, and everything in between.
I have one more verse here in reserve, which I guess I’ll end with.
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.
Psalms 118:8-9
November insights coming soon. Also, I need to write to wrap up on God Without Religion.
Until these next posts, God bless you.
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