Snowy day

This morning when I woke up and began to fix my morning coffee (I forgot to set the automatic program on it last night) I looked outside to find that it had snowed overnight. Even though it was only as deep as a finger nail on top of my car, it was a sight for sore eyes. It attracted my attention as I began to notice how beautiful it looked lingering on the leaves, branches, rooftops, vehicles, etc... It also brought to my attention a passage of scripture that has been in my spirit for quite a long time now. 2 Samuel 23 is a list of King David's "mighty men" and there are several mentioned, the chief three being Josheb-Basshebeth, Eleazar, and Shammah. Also mentioned is a man by the name of Benaiah. When I saw the snow this morning my mind went straight to this passage of scripture that talks about Benaiah.

Benaiah was the son of Jehoiada and the bible says that he accomplished a great deal of things but the thing that I want to bring to your attention is that the bible says that on a snowy day, he climbed down into a pit and killed a lion (2 Sam. 23:20). Now the bible doesn't say how big or how small the pit was, or it doesn't say how much snow or how little snow was on the ground but I think that we can learn from this passage a lesson about our battles. The bible didn't say that he fell down into the pit, it said that he climbed down into the pit. I like to believe that Benaiah knew what was in the pit to begin with and he had confidence in the Lord that he was going to overcome what was in the pit that just so happened to be a lion.

Do you have a lion in your way today? Do you have a pit to cross? I believe that we all as Christians will face a circumstance in our life that resembles a snowy day, a pit, and a lion. It's not really clear why Benaiah climbed down into this pit with this lion but maybe he needed some nourishment and the lion was the only food that he could find. I like to think that Benaiah overcame some obstacles just to get his reward. I'm sure that his footing or his hand hold might have been difficult due to the snow causing it to be slippery, but he climbed down anyway taking the chance of being attacked by the lion if he had fell and became weary. But I believe that Benaiah had his eyes set on the lion the whole way down into the pit because if he had taken his eyes off the lion he may not have been the one to climb out alive. God will take care of us if we keep our eyes on what we are doing. Just as soon as we take our eyes off the path that the Lord wants us to take, the enemy will pounce on us like a lion and devour us. We have to be ready to take on the enemy no matter what the "elements" or "obstacles". We have the power to overcome the enemy by the blood of the Lamb!

Be blessed today and let's not let anything keep us from our blessing. I'll talk more about this passage in future posts.