This Warrior series is eating me up!
It is consuming me! The more i dig and review notes for the upcoming weeks, the more i find that God’s honor and fame are at stake in my life. Men – You and i are called to be HIS WARRIORS! It’s a calling on our lives! That said, it is also a choice. My daily…moment by moment choices reveal if He IS My King, OR a spiritual accessory i must carry. I am left with the pounding question: What greater purpose could you and i want than to be a knight in the service of THE KING OF KINGS?!
This morning, i am sitting at a cafe’ table reading God’s Word. A few tables over, an older “business man” (dressed nice) is in a conversation and using every #@*&% word i have ever heard (yep…the ones often had my mouth “washed out” with a bar of soap for letting slip out as a kid…and others i would have been shot for saying). I thought i saw a cross slip out around his neckline. Dudes, i found myself frustrated and ticked…just waiting for God to give me the “GO!” to tell him to “shut up” and yank the cross off his neck. It ended up not being a cross…as best i could tell. For that reason…and a subtle Holy Spirit “shhhhhhh!” (in my head), you still have a pastor who is not in jail, and a business man that still has a neck.
This all happened while i was reading in 2 Samuel 21:15-17. David was determined to fight with his men, but he became exhausted. One ticked off Philistine with a huge spearhead “threatened” (i’m sure he said; ” #@*&%”) to kill King David. BUT (i love when it say “But” in God’s Word) Abishai “came to David’s rescue”. Then, David’s men…so desiring to protect Israel’s hope…consumed with protecting their King, SWORE that David would never go to battle again.
Reading this (and “With Everything” Hillsong ,blairing on my i-pod) i think how those men were willing to sacrifice EVERYTHING for the life and honor of Their King! Even at a “threat”, one soldier was willing to attack another soldier with a huge spear. Makes me ask:
-what is threatening the life and honor of My King (Jesus) in my life? (my thoughts, my actions, His presence in me, what i am looking at, how i treat my bride and daughters??)
-backing up…am i close enough to my King where i realize He is being threatened in my life?
-am i attacking it/killing it, or standing by letting His life in me be slowly killed?
-Am i keeping my King out of unnecessary battles?… or am i allowing my thoughts, the things i look at, my attitude, how i spend my time make Him have to go to battle?
Am i such a Warrior Consumed that HE IS MY EVERYTHING?!
-stay reckless for my Jesus!
