Year 6, Day 292: 1 Chronicles 20

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Discipleship Focus: Power

• Power: This is the natural outcome when we truly get our authority from the king.  When our authority is from God, we are equipped with His power to accomplish His will.  We act on His behalf in a world that He desperately loves.

We get a conclusion of David’s wartime season in this chapter.  We hear about the conclusion of the war with the Ammonites.  We also hear about the war with David’s archenemies, the Philistines.

In fact, within the story of the Philistines, we hear about the giants.  The word giant is mentioned no less than 5 times in such a short passage.  What is the Chronicler up to at this point?  The Chronicler knows that his people are the underdogs as they return to the land.  They are the powerless ones who are not established in the land anymore.  They are the small runts of the area of Israel.  It should make sense that the Chronicler wants to lift up the stories where the smaller Hebrew people are able to rise up and succeed against the larger and more domineering Philistines.

Why can the Hebrew people prosper?  David and his men prosper because they are not resting upon their own strength.  They prosper because they are getting their power from God.  They are prospering because God’s will has gone before them and is making their success possible.

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