31/07/2014
Jael on my mind today. Her story is found in Judges 4-5. I
know you've heard of Deborah, the judge. Jael was her contemporary.
She was just a woman who got up on a day like this. I doubt
that her 'To-do' list included 'Kill Sisera, the troubler of the nation' or
'Assure national peace for 40 years'. That's the kind of stuff you'll expect
from army generals.
All that Jael used in getting rid of a public enemy was
found in her house. She recognized an opportunity and seized it. She was brave
enough to try. What if Sisera woke up as she was about to go for the kill?
Risky business!
Let's hear what Deborah had to say about Jael.
"In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days
of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travelers walked through
byways...Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be,
blessed shall she be above women in the tent. He asked water, and she gave him
milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail,
and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote
Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his
temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he
fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead." (Judges 5:6, 24-27).
"So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them
that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had
rest forty years." (Judges 5:31).
What opportunity has been delivered to you? Have you
recognised it? Will you seize it and allow the land have rest?
Have a blessed and fruitful day
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