“I Am With You Heart And Soul”
One day Jonathan son of Saul said to his young armor-bearer, “Come,
let’s go over to the Philistine outpost on the other
side.” But he did not tell his father.
Saul
was staying on the outskirts of Gibeah under a
pomegranate tree in Migron. With him were about six
hundred men, among whom was Ahijah,
who was wearing an ephod. He was a son of Ichabod’s
brother Ahitub son of Phinehas,
the son of Eli, the LORD’s priest in
On each
side of the pass that Jonathan intended to cross to reach the Philistine
outpost was a cliff; one was called Bozez and the
other Seneh. One cliff stood to the north toward Mikmash, the other to the south toward Geba.
Jonathan
said to his young armor-bearer, “Come, let’s go over
to the outpost of those uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will act in our
behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few.”
“Do all
that you have in mind,” his armor-bearer said. “Go ahead; I am with you heart
and soul.”
Jonathan
said, “Come on, then; we will cross over toward them and let them see us. If
they say to us, ‘Wait there until we come to you,’ we will stay where we are
and not go up to them. But if they say, ‘Come up to us,’ we will climb up,
because that will be our sign that the LORD has given them into our hands.”
So both of them showed themselves to the Philistine outpost. “Look!” said the Philistines. “The Hebrews are crawling out of the holes they were hiding in.”
The men of the outpost shouted to Jonathan and his armor-bearer, “Come up to us
and we’ll teach you a lesson.”
So
Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, “Climb up after me; the LORD has given them
into the hand of
Jonathan
climbed up, using his hands and feet, with his armor-bearer right behind him.
The Philistines fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer followed and killed
behind him. In that first attack Jonathan and his armor-bearer killed some
twenty men in an area of about half an acre.
1 Samuel 14:1-14
The
young armor-bearer was right with his leader. He lugged the armor up the cliff
and stayed with Jonathan. He killed those Jonathan had wounded.
The
church needs strong leaders to face our spiritual foes, but they must not be
left to face them alone. They need the help and support of everyone in the
congregation.
Leaders
are their bet when people get behind them.
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