Tues.’s Devo - Fearless

Read: 1 Samuel 20:1-21:15; John 9:1-41; Psalm 113:1-114:8; Proverbs 15:15-17 David went to find Jonathan so he could find out why Saul was trying to kill him. Jonathan argued he wasn’t but said he would test his father to find out. They came up with a plan and found out that Saul indeed wanted to kill David. He accused Jonathan of wanting David to become king to humiliate his family. David and Jonathan met one last time and said their good-byes and renewed their covenant of friendship. David fled to Nob where he met with the priest, Ahimelech. When David was in trouble he had gone to see Samuel, the prophet; Jonathan, who stood for the king and now the priest. David was all three. He was a prophet, priest and king. Jesus was also. Ahimelech gave him bread and a sword. He gave him last week’s shew bread that only the priest were suppose to eat. This should have cost him his life since he wasn’t a Levite or a priest but instead it gave him strength for his journey ahead because he was a priest in God’s eyes. Saul’s head herdsman was there and saw the transaction between David and Ahimelech. His name was Doeg which means “fearful”. In John, healing the man born blind was no small miracle. The Pharisees took this one very seriously and investigated it thoroughly. The reason was because they had written in their laws that only the Messiah could cleanse a Jewish leper, heal a deaf and dumb man and heal a man born blind. Jesus was going through their check list and doing all of these things. Jesus came to be the light of the world and he gave physical and spiritual light to this man who had been born blind. They all had been spiritually blind from birth and needed to be born again to see. This man was healed of his physical blindness then Jesus helped him see spiritually. The blind man’s parents were afraid of the Pharisees because they didn’t want to be thrown out of the synagogue but the blind man wasn’t afraid of the religious leaders and stood up to them. They threw him out of the synagogue but Jesus went to find him and gave him entrance into God’s synagogue. Lord, thank you for entrance into your presence. Help us to be fearless like this blind man who stood against religion and the world and was not afraid of the outcome.