An Exhausted David

Job bible study question on if Job's friends are generally correct or incorrect in their theory about the way God acts. This is hard to answer. God judges throughout the bible, Christ didn't judge, but made a way, and said judgment is reserved for the end. So are the wicked not judged on earth? Are we blessed according to our righteousness? When things go wrong in this life, are we being judged? When things are going well (rich man), does this mean we are being blessed for our righteousness? Our fundamental belief is that none are righteous. Therefore, we would all be being judged, and there would be no blessings on earth.

While I was listening to the song "I Will Carry You" by Ellie Holcomb, I began to wonder if fellow believers will carry someone spiritually? The song's message was more geared to Christ carrying us, but my thoughts went to and older David on the battlefield, strength feigning and then his brothers helping him fight some descendents of the giant he slayed when he was younger. We know that Christ on the cross is carrying us. Do we help believers in their walk? How can we help believers that have fallen, and need help? When their faith is shipwrecked, where are we. When the giants in their past are wearing them down spiritually, their thoughts, their despair. Where are we?

How do we carry someone on the spiritual battlefield? We are in the middle of battles ourselves at times. Do we take time when we see someone falling to pick them up, to defend them, to fight their giant? How do we carry them when belief and faith is an individual act? Church is a group of believers. How do we carry the individual brother? In the Book of Job bible study, how should Job's friends have carried him?

Our sense of right and wrong in this world, we always believe good wins over evil but that is not what the bible says in this world, it's in the next world. So how do we get like Job's friends and think being judged, or not righteous?

1) Praise God TODAY for the victory; there will be other battles, but today praise God. King David waxed faint, weary from Giants, an old foe set to slay you. Do our old sinful ways become our battles again, we get weary, can they slay us?

2) Scriptures are our soul's DNA mapping. Some strands God will turn ON, develop us, develop our story.

3) Parallels between Job and David's last battle. He was weary, exhausted. Imagine how he felt, God's anointed; the pressure of he can't lose. People look to us as fathers, and mothers, they look to us, for our strength to do the right thing, In the world, they look at our integrity. Book of Job, "Dost thou still retain thine integrity?" Pressure us to carry on on the battlefield. Do Christians lay down their shield, exhausted?

What if you're all alone, your strength is gone, you don't feel anointed, and you have lost? How did Job feel? Do we hear Job's Praise, how is it different than Davids's?

4) When God doesn't carry you - Job story, when your weary asking where is God...

5) How did Job feel when losing battle after battle, when you are wounded in battle you know he prayed to God. When you can't carry your shield, you are beaten and exhausted.

6) Job offered sacrifices daily (early) and loved his family. Lost his family had to have a big toll on him. Satan attacked his children, wealth, wife, and health. Jobs' Faith is shaken, but it is not destroyed.

Scripture is Our Spiritual DNA

The stories in God's word are like strings of our soul's DNA. We see ourselves in the Garden, our life is perfect, and we want for nothing. Do we love our "Eve" more than God? Did Adam love Eve more than God? Yes, he did.

Do we see the Giants in our life, like David? When God says Go, I am with You; do we trust like David, and run at the giant trials, or do we fear like the Israel Army? Do we hear God say who do you say I am? Do we go to be baptized?

Maybe your strength is gone. We say lean on God, God is your strength, and God also has his ways others believe to lean on.

2 Samuel 21:15 ... have you ever waxed faint like David.

A man can reason and think he knows a biblical truth, but until he experiences it, he can never really know it.

Meditation Notes

We all like to think we are strong, understand, and will always follow God. Let me tell you a story of a man without direction; without purpose. Spiritual hope is lost, spiritual ____ is lost. What is right or wrong is all lost. You are confused, let God make all key decisions in your life, blessed in all that you do when Satan comes will you stand? When you pray endlessly, weep in prayer, and anguish, and don't hear God's direction for months. When your beliefs are challenged by Satan, it's just a little sin, let it happen, you are not a man anymore, you are weak, and you are finished. You can have your kingdom (family) just look the other way. You caused this, your life will be meaningless if you go against me. You pray, and still no response from God. God is mocked in your life, will you stand? Are you "perfect" and "upright" like Job at the beginning, God's words not mine? God shows us in scripture (Job) that no man will stand that day. We all have a "hedge" about us and are in control of nothing. We will not stand in that day, it's God that stands for us. Even our faith is a gift. Grace is a gift from God. So we know when Satan attacks we will fall.. Need to thank God every day for the "hedge" around us. We will all curse the day we are born, question our purpose, scared of the storm when it is passing. How do we overcome the deep sorrow? Praise and Worship! In one of King David's last battles, he was exhausted, almost defeated by a descendant of a giant he had slain in his younger years.