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Corky's Adventure Page.
The Life of David, the shepherd-king.David and his dad often went out for walks and his dad would tell him very important things about life. Things that had been past down from father to son for hundreds of years. "Tell them to your children every chance you get," the old sage had said. "When you go out for a walk with them or when you lie down with them to take an afternoon rest, say: 'Be strong and courageous. Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go'." Everyday David learnt so many important things about life from his father, things that would really help him because David was to live a life full of adventure. One day he was minding his father's sheep and minding his own business. Little did he know as he sat there, that in the tall grass behind him, a lion was stalking. This lion was the most frightening, fearsome, terrible lion that anyone had ever laid eyes on. It had long claws and a most ugly face. The lion had it's eye on one of the sheep as it crept through the grass. David could feel that something was wrong for the sheep were restless. He got up slowly and carefully looked all around. He spotted the lion crouched flat on it's belly, moving toward the sheep, centimetre by centimetre. David felt a cold shiver run down his spine. His father's words came back to him, "Be strong and courageous. Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go". The lion charged, it had not seen David for it's full attention was on it's lunch. David sprang into action, lifting up his shepherd's staff, he let it crash down on the lions head. The blow sent the lion reeling. In a daze the lion turned it's head toward David. David said, "You tried to get me and my sheep, you've got no chance Fat Cat for the Lord will keep me safe from all evil." And he hit the lion again. As this word has been passed down for hundreds and hundreds of years, so I pass it down to you and I want you to remember it so that you can pass it down to your children: "Be strong and courageous. Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." Makes you think doesn't it?If you are a thinking person, this should appeal to you. I would like to look at a verse that is possibly the most well known, most popular, most loved verse in the whole Bible, and that is John 3 verse 16: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believe on him should not perish but have everlasting life." The Amplified Bible puts it: "God so dearly prized the world ..." Seeing that we are all from Planet Earth we could
personalize this and say, "God so dearly prized
me." Think about the full implications of this, I
would like you to find one hair on your head and hold it.
Jesus said, "Every hair on your head is
numbered." Please tell me the number of the hair
that you are holding? Other than counting each hair
neither you nor I could possible know. King David, of Old Testament time said: "Bless the Lord, O my soul and all that is within me bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul who forgives all your sins" (Psalm 103) "Bless the Lord" could be interpreted in this way, "Do something extraordinary to say thank you." Like Mary Magdalene who was so grateful that Jesus had forgiven her sin that she came into a house, where Jesus was dining, broke open an alabaster box filled with spikenard and anointed Jesus with it. What she did was not just an ordinary thank you but an extraordinary one for that alabaster box and spikenard were worth a year's wages. This page hosted by |
