How are the mighty fallen

How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished! - 2 Samuel 1v27

Saul had been a mighty king. He was one of the most powerful men on earth and was God’s ordained man for God’s ordained task. He had everything in place to be mightily used by God.

However Saul chose to walk by sight and not by faith, to look at the seen and not the unseen, and to look at the things below instead of the things. When he decided to depend on his own strength instead of God’s strength he was doomed to fail.

Jonathan and Saul both died in the same battle; Saul at his own hand and Jonathan slain by the enemy. The once mighty king had fallen because he never learned to trust the Lord.

When we decide to depend on our own strength instead of God’s we doom ourselves to failure as will. With the might of God we will never fall.