How to Behave in a Cave by Cathy Duplantis

Author:Cathy Duplantis
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-03T16:45:03+00:00

CHAPTER 6

JONATHAN: YOU CAN’T keep A good MAN down

Jonathan, the son of King Saul, is our second caveman. By anybody's standards, Jonathan was a good man. Yet he found himself in a situation where he and his army had to flee and hide in a cave. Despite his cave days, his life proves that old proverbial saying, "You can't keep a good man down."

During the second year of Jonathan's father's reign as king, Saul chose an army of 3000 men. Two thousand were with him in Michmash and 1000 were with Jonathan in Gibeah. (1 Sam. 13:1,2.) According to verse 5, their rivals, the Philistines, also gathered together an army.

The Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.

Remember, Israel had only 3000 men, while the Philistines were amply supplied with 30,000 chariots and 6000 horsemen, not to mention the people they couldn't count.

With those kinds of odds, what would you do? I'll tell you what they did. They ran and hid in a cave!

When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

1 Samuel 13:6

They hid from the enemy because they were terrified for their lives.

Let’s Go!

But the Word says there came a day when Jonathan said to his armor bearer, "Come on; let's go!"

Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.

1 Samuel 14:1

Jonathan had one of those moments. "It came to pass upon a day" that Jonathan said, "Enough is enough!"

There has to be a day or a moment in your life when you take a stand and declare, "Come on; let's go! Let's get out of here. We're not going to stay in this cave anymore."

You have to make a determination that no matter what you've been through or what you're going through now, it's not going to keep you down. There has to be a moment in time when you declare victory; when you decide you've had enough; when you're sick and tired of being sick and tired; when you get up, brush the dust off your feet and go on with Jesus.

God Is Not Restrained

In verse 6, Jonathan said,

Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the Lord will work for us: for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few.

Can you see the heart of Jonathan that day? He said, "There is no restraint to the Lord."

Those words still ring true today No matter how tiny you are in your own strength, there is no restraint to God.

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