2 Samuel 10:9-12
Joab saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so he selected some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them against the Arameans. He put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother and deployed them against the Ammonites.
Joab said, “If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to come to my rescue; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you. Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The Lord will do what is good in his sight.”
In the assignments that God has assigned for each of us, there will come a time that it will be too great just for you alone.
God’s vision for your life is too big for you alone. In fact what you think is God’s vision for your life is actually a slice of the grand purpose of God. So it is not about *YOUR* vision, it is about the purpose of God.
It is not about your private battles, it is about winning the war. So many of us are so concerned about our own private battles and we are losing sight of the war that God is actually waging.
When God calls you into an assignment, he is recruiting you to a work that he is already doing. Your work isn’t a fresh assignment, it is part of what he is doing.
When you play your part, you are contributing to the success of the grand purpose of God.
Now if you do it right, you will get to a point that you will not be able to do it alone. If you try it, you will be attempting to limit what God is doing and he will take you out because no man is too important to hinder God’s work.
When there is a war to fight, it is therefore important that Joab must assign Abishai his brother to face the Ammonites, it is impossible for him to command both armies at the same time. He must empower him to lead the other army.
Abishai must also see that he is not helping Joab to fight his battle but he is doing his own part of the work to ensure that the war is won.
When the work is overwhelming one of them, the other must respond to assist. This is not the time to say ‘You see I am better than you in fighting battles’ that attitude will not contribute to the winning the war.
Peter, his boat and the fishes would have sank if he had not beckoned to his brethren to come and help him.
Joab would have lost the battle if he didn’t empower his brother to take the Ammonites and if they didn’t offer to help one another both of them may have perished.
None of us have a special destiny or special vision that it is only for you. We are all in the service of God, working to fulfil his purpose in the generation he has placed us and we will do well if we will cease seeing each other as competition but *complementers*.
Doing this we are all assured to win our private battles and of course together we can celebrate winning the war.
Think on these things.
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