FIVE TRIES?
Today's reading: 1 Samuel 16-20

"He picked up five smooth stones from a stream and put them in his shepherd's bag..." 1 Samuel 17:40 NLT

I love this! Maybe you've thought of it...maybe you haven't. It's a revelation of sorts to me. An epiphany, one might say. It's new. It's exciting. It's encouraging.

God did not need the five stones. Let's be deeply theological: God didn't even need the one stone.

But he allowed David to select the stones from the creekbank. He let the shepherd boy place them in his little knapsack. He might have even allowed the little sharp-shooter to think he might need them.

But God didn't.

The five stones weren't for five tries...four of them were souveniers for David to keep the rest of his life in memory of what he witnessed his God doing.

Got some stones of your own?