He Strengthened His Hand In God

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If not now, there will come a time in life where God will want you to part ways with a person you love. A person who held your hand through many trials and temptations. The parting will not be for any failure of the relationship, but a parting ordained by God. It will be on the basis of your growth and maturity. Jonathan and David are the only two people we read about in the entire Bible of a friendship so potent in love for one another. A brotherly love that surpassed, "even that of the love of women."

When David was hiding out in the wilderness, and in the woods because Saul was hunting him down to kill him. Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God. Sometimes it feels as though our souls are always being hunted and there is never a day's respite. Souls tire of being hunted, and like David they are in the wilderness in a wood. Then was Jonathan's chance. But notice what he does; he does not comfort David that he becomes necessary to him. In essence Jonathan detaches David from himself, and he attaches him instead to his "very present help." From there Jonathan went away to his house and David went into the wood.....alone with God.

If he had leaned on Jonathan, if Jonathan had made himself necessary to David, he would not have leaned on his Rock, and proved the glorious strength of His Rock. His whole life would have been lived on a lower level, and who can tell how many of his songs would have been left unwritten, or all the prayers to God of his lamenting, losses, griefs and victories would never have been recorded.

What great loss to the glory of God and to the church of all the ages had not Jonathan strengthened David's hand in God. Let that love that was in Jonathan for David be in you. That selfless, strong, brave and faithful love that detaches yourself from those you love, and strengthen their hands in God. There are always chances for strengthening one another's hands in God; let us not lose our chances.