Thoughts for another day

Dec. 9, 2009

Today's verse: 1 Sm. 17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

When I read such verses, I cannot but marvel at the wonder and power of these Words which show such amazing faith and confidence in God! When the Israelites saw Goliath, they were real scared. Their eyes beheld a man who held a spear that would shame the beam a weaver weaved his thread with in the past or the spindle of a loom in today’s times; and they fled at his presence.

Not so David. When David saw him, he did not consider the stature of the man. He rather looked at him with the eyes of faith in God. Therefore, he didn’t see the man as a threat, yet it was the same man who produced so much fear in others. I must say that there’s something in genuine men and women of God that births so much faith in others. The reason is they see the real essence of God which the world isn’t able to see. In that they see His awesomeness and amazing power and they realise nothing is impossible with God. In doing that, they too believe in impossible things and are able to do them although in the natural world they don’t seem ‘doable’.

My friend the things Jesus said like, ‘Ask and you shall receive’, ‘seek and you shall find’, etc. are definite because Jesus knows all is possible. Jesus also said if we had mustard-seed-sized faith, it would be possible for us to move the mountain into the sea. Jesus didn’t just say it but did because He knows it’s possible. We humans have been bestowed with so much power but our sins keep us away from it. But the Good News of God tells us that it’s all possible. The only condition is that we keep away from sin and seek His glory and then His power will hit us in way’s we’ve never experienced and like David we’d also see giant opponents as a blades of straw.