March 29

1 Samuel 13-14:45  I liked today how Jonathan got tired of sitting around and did something. He knew that God was well able to help them win wheather by many of by few (1 Sam 14:6) but he had not heard directly from God to go ahead and do it. This goes right along with Joyce Meyer program that I watched today on confidence. They were talking about how sometimes you don't feel like you really hear from God even though you have sought Him and that you just need to take a step out and see if His blessing is on the thing or if there are more open doors. Jonathan stepped out and found out that God's blessing was there.

Compared to a whole army, he went alone. But he was not alone, obviously God was there. But so was one other unsung hero- his armor bearer. In light of what we had seen in the story of Ruth about the unnamed servant being a picture of the Holy Spirt, I believe that this is another picture of the Holy Spirit, scaling the mountains of life with us...right at our side.....with us heart and soul. (1 Sam 14:7).

Ephesians 6 tells us to put on the whole armor of God. The helmet of salavation, the breastplate of righteousness, belt of truth, the shield of faith, the sword of the spirit (the word of God) etc...We can't do any of that without the help of the Holy Spirit, our armor bearer.

If you have followed my blog at all, you know that I delight in finding these little tidbits in the OT. I think that it is interesting that before they entered the Promised Land, we 'saw' Jesus all over the place and now we are 'seeing' the Holy Spirit all over the place. I'll have to really look for any more "Jesus" appearances but I bet we won't find Him. Just like when He rose from the dead and went to be with the Father, the disciples must have felt like He left them. But He sent someone in His place- the Holy Spirit.

Hope that you are having a blessed Holy week. Sorry the blog is a bit behind. Life happens :)