1 Samuel 17:32 “David said to Saul, ‘Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.’” ESV
Today I struggled on the
elliptical. My husband was leaving for an overnight business trip, and have I
mentioned….I’m bored here? I wanted to see him off, yet I knew that in order to
get everything accomplished for the day that I needed to get my workout done
early. I did my running, lifted my weights, did my cycling, and all I had left
to do was 20 minutes on the elliptical. Around minute 2 though, I started the
bargaining in my head…
”I’ve done enough.”
“I can make it up tomorrow.”
“I’m tired.”
“Last night we jumped for an
hour at the trampoline park. That had to have burned off some calories.”
The struggle was real. Every
day it seems that I have bargaining conversations with myself. Some days it’s a
physically challenging for me to keep on keeping on with my workout. Every day
a new excuse pops into my head, telling me that I really don’t need to complete
this. And even when I’m feeling on top of the work physically, a mental battle
ensues telling me that I just don’t have enough time to complete this. There is
just too much to do. When I start a new challenge or a new exercise, I tell
myself that I just am not strong enough to do this. I just can’t do it. When
I’m side by side on the treadmill line with an athletic jock sprinting while
I’m jogging at my comfortable 4.5, I tell myself I’m not good enough and I must
look completely stupid. The struggle is real…but it’s only mental.
I’ve often thought about the
story of David and Goliath and what made David so much better than the other
thousands of Israelites who could’ve done the exact same thing as David...and
much more quickly. Every day for 40 days, the Israelites would line up to face
the Philistines only to hear Goliath taunt them every single day. The
Israelites were afraid. Saul was afraid. Every day it seemed that their
confidence was fading just a little bit more.
And then comes David. David
wasn’t really there to fight. He was just sent on an errand by his father and
realized what was happening. He had confidence. He knew that if he could fight
a bear and a lion in order to save his sheep that he could face a mere man. But
the true source of his confidence was revealed in v. 37, “The LORD who rescued
me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the
hand of this Philistine.”
The Lord was able. And
because the Lord was able…David was able.
The struggle is real when we
face challenges of life. They may be physical challenges. But they may be
financial challenges. They may be relationship challenges. They may be
vocational or educational challenges. But God is able. And because God is
able….we are able.
The same God that’s
delivered us time and time again will deliver us now. He’s still the same God
today that delivered the giant Goliath into the hands of a little shepherd boy.
What challenges do you face
today? Are you focusing on the circumstance while your fear deepens day by day?
Or are you focusing on the track record of Almighty God?
Encouragement for Today
2 Corinthians 12:9 “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient
for you. For my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all
the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.’”
ESV
Phillippians 4:19 “And my God will supply every need of yours
according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” ESV
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