Year 6, Day 284: 1 Chronicles 11

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Discipleship Focus: Competency

• Competency: Being able to accomplish what one is called to do.

In Chapter 11, we hear about David’s rise to power.  Compared to the Samuel account, we hardly hear anything other than he is brought before the people and they celebrate him as king.  Naturally, we also hear God’s blessing over David.

In that blessing, though, we see the competency of David.  He is God’s champion.  He is a competent leader.  David goes up to Jebus, which becomes Jerusalem.  The city was impenetrable, but in God David is competent enough to take it.  David becomes King of Jebus, and in doing so becomes not only king over the Hebrew people but also a high priest of God in the order of Melchizedek.

But the competency doesn’t just stop with David.  The rest of this chapter is devoted to David’s mighty men.  The rest of the chapter is devoted to warriors who were competent.  In God’s power, they rose up and did the impossible.  They took on numbers that were far greater than they should have been able to defeat.  They accomplished feats in circumstances that they should not have been able to master.

This chapter speaks to us about competency.  When we are doing the will of God, we can step out in faith, knowing that God will make us competent.  The world might still reject us, but we can be competent in what we do.

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