Sometimes it takes a pawn

April 17, 2009

Today's Reading: Judges 3-4 and 1 Corinthians 4

Have you ever felt powerless? Like when you are trying to make it in the world, but it seems like everyone who you need to please is somehow above you, and impossible to get to.

Don’t believe me? Call me. Then after we talk, go ahead and try and call the president. I guarantee that unless you got something that is truly worth his while, he won’t want to talk to you, and you will probably one of thousands of messages left for the Commander in Chief.

I suppose there are times when we all have felt insignificant. It’s like if life were a chess board, we would be the pawn. Well, truth be told, the pawn has just as much power to take out the king or queen as a rook, bishop, or knight.

This is principle works in the Bible. Take Ehud, just an ordinary Benjamite. I’m not certain how he got to see the king, and why they didn’t suspect anything when he said he had a secret message. Yet this southpaw took out the king with one swift stroke.

We see this again with the story of Jael and Sisera. Clearly, Sisera must have thought that Jael was just a lowly housewife of Heber, but she had him pegged from the start! Yeah, that’s bad Jael and Sisera joke, and here’s some more: Sisera’s last words were: “That wasn’t the type of steak I wanted”.

Oh, oh, I got another. What was the last thing that went through Sisera’s mind before he died? Give up? A tent peg!

Okay, I can’t think of any more Jael and Sisera jokes. My point is that sometimes that little guy has a way of taking out the big guy. So the pawn isn’t just a pawn after all.

In fact, Paul says in the today’s reading in Corinthians that we are actually kings. We may have been weak before, but God, He has made us strong. Strong enough to take on just about anything, or anyone.

So, if you are ever feeling powerless at all, then know this: you aren’t. Whatever opposition that comes up against you will be stopped by a killing blow that Jesus has already delivered to the devil.

Then you will discover that you are not as powerless as you once thought. You have a lot things that you can do, whether you know it or not. Sometimes, all it takes is just a simple small step.