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David had faced the giant.

He had overcome his fear and literally cut the head off of the enemy’s Greatest Champion Warrior.

And it had led him to this very moment.

All he could do was beg God to save him.

Psalm 10 ¹ Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? ² In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak, who are caught in the schemes he devises. ³ He boasts about the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the Lord. ⁴ In his pride the wicked man does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God. ⁵ His ways are always prosperous; your laws are rejected by him; he sneers at all his enemies. ⁶ He says to himself, “Nothing will ever shake me.” He swears, “No one will ever do me harm.”

Cornered. Terrified. And certainly wondering why he had been put in this position, David hid in a cave as Saul purposed to end David’s life and strip away the divine favor that David had built.

And God would provide his chance. Saul wandered into the very cave where David hid. Vulnerable and positioned as a sitting duck, David’s chance to strike down Saul was right in front of him. It was the logical thing to do. And David was poised to do it.

But God had convicted a man who did not act in fear, but in faith. And in his faith David put God ahead of his own desires.

David’s actions followed God … not his own heart’s desires.

1 Samuel 24 ⁵ Afterward, David was conscience- stricken for having cut off a corner of his robe. ⁶ He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed, or lay my hand on him; for he is the anointed of the Lord.” ⁷ With these words David sharply rebuked his men and did not allow them to attack Saul.

What a story.

The legend of the Warrior King grows the more you look into it.

And yet, this Warrior King is nothing more than a sinful man, as we find out in reading about his fall from grace due to his choices with Bathsheeba.

But that’s just it.

God isn’t looking for Perfect.

He is not looking for Flawless.

And He is not looking for Glorious.

Those are the descriptions only applicable to Jesus.

And we can thank God that we are not called to anything but Him. Because in our pursuit of being God’s own, we would simply crumble in the face of evil, just like David.

Our pursuits and endeavors are not directed to be perfect.

They are not supposed to be without blemish.

They are required to be REAL.

Jesus uses the phrase “depart from me, I never knew you” in Matthew 7 and Luke 13 because we are required to be vulnerable before God. Not perfect. Vulnerable.

And REAL.

As David spoke to God in Psalm 10, he was REAL. He worshipped, he celebrated, he questioned, he begged, and he cried out in all the ways that he could.

And he found that by walking with God, he would get through it.

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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511 Relight Your Fire

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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July 25, 2025 0

486 God Intended It For Good

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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February 8, 2025 0

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WITH DOUG JOHNSON

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511 Relight Your Fire

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