He is our Strength
“ But David found strength in the Lord his God ”. An amazingly beautiful and inspiring verse hidden in 1Samuel 30:6. David and his motley crew of men had just been humiliated and sent back from the battlefield by the Philistine generals with whom he had aligned for some time and living with in Ziklag. To make matters worse when they returned to Ziklag, to their horror they found their place raided by the Amalekites, their wives and children were taken captives and everything that they fought for was gone. The response of these battle hardened fighters was pretty unusual, they cried!! in fact they wailed! Do men cry? Brave men don't or should not cry and show weakness right? Isn’t that what we were told from childhood? But here Bible records that these tough men cried loudly till they had no strength left to cry. Probably some might argue, because it was an all men group and no women were around, they cried. No inhibitions in showing weakness, Just kidding!