david

Somewhere between killing a giant and allowing his men to go to war without him, David lost his desire to bow down and worship God.

It was a slow fade.

It didn’t happen overnight.

And it probably happened with a subtlety that couldn’t be noticed by anyone in human flesh.

And so it happened.

2 Samuel 11 ² One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, ³ and David sent someone to find out about her.

“And David sent someone to find out about her” …

Finding out about a person in the wrong context is a recipe for disaster. What we need to do is find out about God. And David knew this. In his quiet times watching over sheep he was slowly trained by God to take down a Philistine giant. And he did. In front of everyone, he stood with the head of a great warrior and sent evil packing. The Hebrew army absolutely decimated the Philistines in reaction to the actions of one man.

But it slowly decayed to David shifting his worship to something else.

Himself.

And, as all of us find out when we truly look in the mirror, we are short of the ten trillion dollar payment that is necessary to even pay the lawyer’s retainer to defend us before the accuser of the brethren.

2 Samuel 12 ¹ The Lord sent Nathan to David……” ⁵ David burned with anger…”As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

David decayed to a place where EVEN DAVID wanted to bring justice to himself.

But isn’t that just it?

Romans 3 verse 23 reminds us that we are ALL GUILTY, that God could not find even one worthy of righteousness. A colossal failure of all man that requires a Savior.

And so He came.

And He came to destroy all that we had built.

And He did.

So today … remind yourself of this.

Because without Jesus—we have NOTHING.

NOTHING.

And we would do well to remind ourselves of this—every day.

Because without it, we are a victorious king standing on a porch in the wrong place looking at something that we have no business putting our eyes on….

So RELIGHT YOUR FIRE. Remember who you are in your BC days.

It’s an ugly picture.

RELIGHT YOUR FIRE

As I sat in reflection and worship today, I was reminded of this song. To cry out to God, and to truly mean it, is our only connection to Him. To be able to cry out to Jesus and to say “I can’t do this” is not only okay … it is necessary. He is the only one that can help us.

RELIGHT YOUR FIRE

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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One of the greatest verses in the Bible is Genesis 50:20.

After getting sold into slavery, falsely accused, thrown into prison, and then promoted to Governor of Egypt, Joseph’s life comes full circle.

And the grace of God falls onto his brothers in an incredible way as he tells them:

Genesis 50 ²⁰ You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

In an incredible story of what God does…redemption…Joseph’s life saves an estimated 70 Israelites and a million people. And Joseph’s ability to move past what happened and forgive is incredibly significant.

Slavery. Slander. Prison. When we get in a tough situation, a trial, or we are simply trying to fight through things, we must ask?

Where Is My Focus?

When David walked up on the Goliath situation, he heard from everyone about the giant. Goliath. Goliath. Goliath. But David was not focused on Goliath, nor the weapons that they used to fight. He was focused on God. And God gave David a weapon that was far greater than what Goliath had. The sling that God had him use to fight wolves and lions was far greater than anything Goliath could bring.

Where Is My Focus? It should be on God … not the giant. Because God has the weapons we need to defeat the giant.

What Will You Get There?

Hope … and Faith. Hebrews 11 says that Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what you do not see. Hope is one of the most important things we can have. When our hope is not there, our thoughts go in the wrong direction. But hope gives us the motivation to get up and walk, to move forward, to begin to dream.

What Will You Get There? Hope … And Faith Is Being Sure Of What You Hope For.

God is bigger than the walls in front of us.

He is bigger than our failures and our mistakes.

He is bigger than our mortality.

Jesus Christ became one of us so that we could know that He has walked in our shoes, that He has been tempted, and that He has experienced loss.

And we can hold on to this promise … that what was intended to harm us God can use for good.

WALK in the covering of Jesus … His love never fails.

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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2 MINUTE WARNING

WITH DOUG JOHNSON

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