The Books of Samuel describe the origins of kingship in Israel and recount the reigns of the first two kings, Saul, and David.
Under Saul’s rule God empowered Israel to become a powerful nation with a great army capable of dominance on the battlefield. For as Mary would say to Gabriel centuries later “nothing is impossible with God.”
However, by the time the Philistine giant Goliath began to taunt Saul’s army and more importantly God himself. Saul’s fortunes had changed he lost God’s favor because he lost favor with God.
Into this breach came David. The Shepheard boy used only one of five smooth stones he had gathered to slay the giant in the name of God. For nothing is impossible with God.
When the time came the great army of Saul could not be greater because they were not greater with God.
2024 is looming and God is calling us not to be great but to be greater.
God is calling us to be greater in 2024 because the challenges we face are greater.
We must be greater because the challenge of climate change with warmer winters, hotter summers and more intense weather events are greater.
We must be greater because the challenge of gun violence ripping through our communities, schools and even our churches is greater.
We must be greater because the challenge of the 2024 election where are voters are disenfranchised on a whim, where partisan gerrymandering eliminates our choice to pick candidates, where a candidate who plays games with reason for the Civil War and mad man is running to get his old job back.
In 2024 God Is Calling Us To Be Greater but the only way to be greater is to be like David so we must be greater with God.
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