Journal Entry...

Lord, I need strength for this week. When I look at the coming week, I feel that I'm looking at my Giants. Yes, I feel like a grasshopper. I feel like the Isrealites when they were challenged and confronted by the Philistines.

Yet, I know the outcome of these stories. Yet, I know in my heart that they were more than just stories, but Truths. I need strength to beat these giants, I need strength to get through this week without worrying, without griping about school, without being distracted, and to focus on what I should be doing. I need strength to overcome my own desires to take things easy, and to excel in everything I attempt to do this week.

In a nutshell, I need You.

Numbers 13:30-33

...Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, "We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it." But the men who had gone up with him said, "We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are... We saw the Nephilim there. We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."

1 Samuel 17:45-47

David said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied... All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hands."

I take courage in Your word because it is in Your word that I find strength!