We Must Hew Our Agaxe to Pieces
by J. R. Miller Since he had no sword,
he ran over and pulled Goliath's sword from its sheath. David
used it to kill the giant and cut off his head. 1 Samuel 17,
50 and 51. If he had not cut off the giant's
head, the old Philistine champion would have gotten up by and by
and walked away, for he was only stunned, not killed by the stone. David made sure work of his victory. A great many of our attacks upon
sin in our own hearts and in the world only stun and do not
kill the evil. We walk away, thinking we have
done a fine thing, but shortly we meet the old giant again,
stalking abroad as before. He soon recovers from our blow,
and we have to fight the battle over, and perhaps we fight it
again in the same half-hearted way, and thus on and on to the
end of our life. Most of us have had just such
experience as this with our own evil lusts and passions. We overcome
them very often and think each time that we are through with
them, but soon again they are as active as ever. We need to
learn a lesson from David and finish our victories by cutting
off the head of every giant we strike down. There is no other
way of killing sins. The life is in the head, and
the head must be struck off, or the enemy will be facing us
again in a day or two with but a scar on his forehead. The only
way to get a real victory over vices is to decapitate them. Bruises and wounds are not enough. There must be thorough work done
in the name of the Lord. Halfway measures will not avail. Put to death, therefore, whatever
belongs to your earthly nature, sexual immorality, impurity,
lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. Colossians
3.5 Samuel hewed Agag to pieces before the LORD. 1 Samuel 15,
33 Like Samuel, we must hew our Agags to pieces.