Iron Sharpens Iron

We have spent last week look at making choices to embrace all possible moments, knowing that any one of those moments may be a defining moment that we would hate to miss!
Lets move on... Chapter 2: Just Do Something

This scripture kicks it!

1 Samuel 14:1-12
 1 One day Jonathan son of Saul said to the young man bearing his armor, "Come, let's go over to the Philistine outpost on the other side." But he did not tell his father.2 Saul was staying on the outskirts of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree in Migron. With him were about six hundred men, 3 among whom was Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was a son of Ichabod's brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh. No one was aware that Jonathan had left.4 On each side of the pass that Jonathan intended to cross to reach the Philistine outpost was a cliff; one was called Bozez, and the other Seneh. 5 One cliff stood to the north toward Micmash, the other to the south toward Geba.6 Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer, "Come, let's go over to the outpost of those uncircumcised fellows. Perhaps the LORD will act in our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few."7 "Do all that you have in mind," his armor-bearer said. "Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul."8 Jonathan said, "Come, then; we will cross over toward the men and let them see us. 9 If they say to us, 'Wait there until we come to you,' we will stay where we are and not go up to them. 10 But if they say, 'Come up to us,' we will climb up, because that will be our sign that the LORD has given them into our hands." 11 So both of them showed themselves to the Philistine outpost. "Look!" said the Philistines. "The Hebrews are crawling out of the holes they were hiding in." 12 The men of the outpost shouted to Jonathan and his armor-bearer, "Come up to us and we'll teach you a lesson."
      So Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, "Climb up after me; the LORD has given them into the hand of Israel." 13 Jonathan climbed up, using his hands and feet, with his armor-bearer right behind him. The Philistines fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer followed and killed behind him.

REFLECTION: There is so much in this scripture. I love it! It’s about doing something, anything when everyone else has given up and chooses to do nothing. Saul’s, chilling under a tree moping about the fact that they only have two swords amongst all their men how it seems impossible to overcome the enemy. Jonathan grabs a sword and his armor bearer and decides to something... I love v6: “Perhaps the Lord will act on our behalf”.

Are you sitting around under a tree right now, waiting, pouting?
Maybe you are grumbling because your battles seem bigger than the provision.
Maybe you only have a couple fish and some bread and yet there are thousands that need to eat...
Jonathan stepped up, even prepared to lose his life should God not choose to act, David stepped up with with only a couple pebbles and a sling, Moses liberated the Israelites with a stutter. The list goes on in the bible of people who were faced with challenges that were bigger than what they could handle. the challenge will be for us to believe in a God who is not limited by our circumstances, a God who is able if we are willing.


PRAYER: God give us the ability to rise up and trust you for the battles we face this day. God you are good and true, God you will consume our enemies, God we ask for the faith it will take to rise up like Jonathan.
Amen