Issue 1777 – Throwing Stones – July 25, 2025
The lawn mower picked up a rock and threw it with great force into the windshield of the oncoming car. Fortunately, windshields are made of safety glass, because the stone hit right in front of the driver’s face.
What could have been a significant, life-threatening disaster was relegated instead to the category of a minor accident. No one was hurt, and the damage was easily repaired.
My friend said that all he saw was the blur of a shape moving towards him at incredible speed. Then he heard a rifle shot like “crack” as the rock hit the windshield. It took some phone calls, but he was eventually able to get the offending party to pay for the damage without having to make an insurance claim.
My friend later commented, “I know what Goliath must have felt like when he saw that rock coming. There was nothing I could do. I was sure I was dead.”
We often think of the story of David and Goliath when stones are hurled. It is an incredible true tale of a young man’s zeal for God and the courage that gave him (for a refresher, read 1 Samuel 17).
It is also a warning to those who would mock the God Most High.
They may stand for a long time, as Goliath did, seemingly without punishment, but God will eventually lose His patience with them. Mocking God is a hazardous thing to do.
The Scriptures are very clear on that fact.
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.Galatians 6:7
In my pre-Christian days, I was often guilty of mocking God. It seemed perfectly safe, after all; either there was no real god, or He seemed powerless to do anything about it. A powerless god is something that cries out to be mocked.
I did not realize that, rather than an absence of God’s power keeping me safe, it was the presence of a great deal of God’s patience.
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 2 Peter 3:8-9
There will come a day of reckoning. All accounts will be reviewed, and all outstanding debts will be settled. The mocker will be found wanting and pay the penalty.
Only those who have accepted the Lord’s wondrous gift of grace and mercy will come through the judgment unscathed. Are you one of them?
Until next time, praise God for His patience with us.
Hallelu Yah
Be blessed,
Kevin
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