Resurrection Week - Monday

On this Easter Monday in Resurrection Week, we take full notice of banners which servants of the Lord erected to Him, made of what I have styled as, faith and trust material. This is the kind of material which all believers who have died with Christ and know resurrection with Him, possess.

Our rejoicing continues in a God who has been more than gracious and generous with us, to fill us with Himself, so that in Him we can rejoice. Our rejoicing this week is not just in our Risen Lord, but in all that our Risen Lord can do and wants to do in us. O yes! This is a week of celebrating our Risen Lord Jesus, Priest and King, in resurrection boldness through unshakable faith and trust in Him.

We begin with our eyes on Ahimelech, the priest of God. This is the faith and trust material of which a genuinely honest and wisely serving priest is clothed. This is faith and trust material, sparkling and glittering with wisdom, power and authority of God.

Ahimelech, the serving priest at Nob, is faced with a problem today, one he never foresaw nor envisioned. He is in service, obediently being and doing as all God’s priests are to be and do, when, a request is made of him by David. The request is ordinary, what the ordinary person would be able to supply, in some form or fashion. The priest knows David and how powerful a soldier he is. He, like many people, has heard great things about this man whom God favours. Now David has come to the priest at the temple and has asked him for bread. This is what we are told David said to Ahimelech. Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find. 1 Samuel 21: 3.

David is not demanding nor is he commanding, the priest. He is a man in desperate need of bread for himself and his committed band of men. Remember, David’s life is threatened by King Saul and he is on the run for his life. Some of his loyal men have stayed with him and have become fugitives with him. These men, like David, are hungry and David has come to the priest in the holy place at Nob, for bread to feed the hungry.

The quick and honest response of the priest is explosive, legendary and full of resurrection power.

Listen to him speak now, in confidence and boldness. I don’t have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here – providing the men have kept themselves from women. 1 Samuel 21: 4b.

What a response of the man of God. There is victory in His words.

Tomorrow we shall know resurrection victory in this response of the priest of God.