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Shammah fighting for Lentils: Standing for What Belongs to the Lord (2 Samuel 23)
In 2 Samuel 23, Shammah stood alone in a field of lentils while the people fled from the Philistines. To others, it may have looked like a small piece of ground. But to faith, it was part of Jehovah’s inheritance.
This meditation considers what the lentil field speaks of spiritually: the simple, sustaining truths that feed the people of God — Scripture, holiness, obedience, a good conscience, the Lord’s table, and the glory of Christ. It also looks at the Philistine as a picture of religious flesh occupying divine ground without coming by God’s way.
Drawing from Ephesians 6, we consider how…
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