Who Says?

1 Samuel 17:33 Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”

 

You can’t you, are not able, you don’t know how, you cannot learn, you will fail! Saul might as well have told David he was worthless. Who is telling you that today? Who are you listening to today? No, No, NO, NO, NO! we hear it over and over again every day. People are constantly telling us what we can and cannot accomplish.  We all have our Goliaths to face. They are the problems in this life that follow us, they taunt us, and they make us doubt ourselves. So who do we listen to? It is more often the case than not that we listen to the boss that tells us that we will never pull it off, the spouse who says don’t take the risk, the friend who tells you that you will fail. So we slink back behind the ranks of others who are just as scared as we are, and we wait. Goliath is still there, he is still calling out your name, he is still waiting. Why do we listen to those that would hold us back? I love David’s response to Saul “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.” David is telling Saul that he has had other times where he has faced adversaries, they might have been smaller, but he won. If God will see him through the small ones, He will see David through the big ones! You see, when we listen to the world we will never be able to fully trust in the Lord, but when we set those naysayers aside, and focus on the Lord, focus on His strength, focus on His promises, focus on His faithfulness, then we will see there is nothing that we cannot do. There is no problem that we cannot face, and overcome. The world says you can’t, but the Lord says with Me, all things are possible. SO who will you listen to? Sometimes getting to the fight is half the battle. How many people do you think stopped David on the way to the battle field? An entire army refused to step forward, yet this one young man walked past them all. To get to a point where he could fight the Philistine, David first had to fight through the people who were supposed to be supporting him! Oh, but when we do that, when we refuse to listen to the ones who would tell us we can’t, and instead listen to THE ONE who says we can, when we lose ourselves, and find the voice of the Lord inside of us, we are unstoppable, no weapons formed against us will prosper. So who says you can’t, and does it really matter? The important thing to remember is who says you can!

 

 

God Bless,

Brian Thetford

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The Ridge Fellowship

 

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