When Your Melody Becomes Your Weapon

King Saul was anointed the first king of Israel but did not take his relationship with God seriously; thus all the mess ups. But then, the Prophet Samuel went to anoint a little shepherd boy from the back hills of Bethlehem; named David. This boy had a gift; and sometimes his gift would not look like it fit his lifestyle. He loved to dance on the fields and sit with a scroll open and write these prayers and songs to God using his harp. The Prophet came to his town and anointed him to be the 2nd king of Israel. Even while Saul was still sitting on the throne. This is where we are now.

The Bible says in 1st Samuel 16:14-23 that an evil spirit started to bug Saul. Notice that is says that the evil spirit filled him with fear and depression.That’s a bad mix to be pulling on someone's mind. But it kind of sounds like right now doesn't it? Everyone going crazy; running around like chickens without heads. I could imagine Saul's servants trying to help him out from getting out of the depressed mood. Day after day nothing worked. Until, the final option was a skilled but anointed musician to come and play the spirit away. This kind of reminds me of the Joseph story in Genesis when the cup bearer, finally, remembered Joseph. But isn't that what we do sometimes? We try everything first and then, finally, remember God; when it should be the other way around.

Now we see David going to help Saul. It’s interesting to see that David goes in with a harp but then gets a weapon after; due to Saul making him his armor bearer. But what if I told you that David already had a weapon; His Harp. You see, many people think that the sling shot got him into the palace. It was actually a Melodious instrument.The weapon of melody did more work than the sword or lance. It soothed the place a real weapon couldn’t reach called the soul, where all the emotions are. You may be thinking, well David had to use a sword at some point; he did. But he knew how to sit and worship God as well.

In closing, 2nd Corinthians 10:4 says "The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds". Sometimes we want to use the wrong weapon for the wrong type of fight. It’s like the saying “taking a knife to a gunfight”. We can talk about how Joshua’s battle plan first had shofars blasting and people shouting. Or we can also talk about how Jehoshaphat was told, by God, to send the levites out singing first. Or even, how Paul and Silas were singing in the jail and ended up liberated. When all is done and gone; we still have a huge weapon of spiritual mass destruction. It’s called worship. Have you been using it?