Awaiting Your Orders, Sir

Our Dan
(front and center, Ramadi Iraq 2009)

"Then David did so, just as the LORD had commanded him." (2 Samuel 5:25)

This morning in a children's praise song, I heard:

"Be bold and be strong

Banish fear and doubt

For the promise of your God

Is to bless your coming in 

And to bless you going out...

As Joshua did at Jericho,

We will SHOUT to defeat the foe

Before the King of kings!"

and remembered that in every Old Testament victory, the children of God did exactly as He commanded them.

In Genesis 14 when Pharaoh's chariots charged in hot pursuit of the Israelites, God said, "Stand still and see the salvation of the LORD. I will fight for you!" And the waters God parted for His people, washed over the Egyptian chariots and horsemen and Pharaoh's entire army.

In Joshua 6, in the battle of Jericho, God said, "March around the city for six days, and on the seventh day, march around the city seven times. Have seven priests with seven trumpets of rams' horns sound the trumpets and all the people SHOUT!" At the seventh time when the seven priests sounded the seven horns and the people shouted, the walls of Jericho fell flat!

In 2 Samuel 5, in the war with the Philistines, King David inquired of the LORD. God said, "Do not go directly up; circle around behind them and come at them from the balsam trees. When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the trees, GO!" David did so, just as the LORD had commanded him, and struck down the Philistines from Geba as far as Gezer.

Today, beloved, in this fierce war with COVID-19, let us inquire of the LORD and do exactly as He commands us because, as my four-year-old grandboy sings, "Victory belongs to Jesus. Victory belongs to Him!"