*Know Thyself

“…for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?” David was secure in his position. He could not be provoked into proving it. He did not have to bully it over others; he knew it within himself. God has a way of vindicating His man or woman by humbling stone-throwing Shimei’s before them. We do not have to flex our spiritual muscle; God is our “Muscle-man!”

As Matthew Henry says, quoting a Latin proverb, “It suffices the lion that he has laid his victim prostrate.” Whenever God wants to humiliate those who abuse and misuse us, He does it by raising us up and bringing them down. Mordecai and Haman are good examples of this.

It is not important that others know who we are, but it is for us. (RDS)