Y’SharAL is a spiritual nation. Its weaponry isn’t carnal, and neither are its adversaries. We war against the spiritual forces that we create and empower within our own souls by the choices we make in days of our lives.

The devils and demons with which we contend are constructs of the unsavory attributes and proclivities we feed within our own beings. The gods we serve are idolized caricatures of what we imagine to be our own existential qualities. We cherish the “acceptable” self image we retain and defend in our minds, as if it were a favored figurine on the shadowbox in the living room.

We acrobatically nod our heads at the notion of a living God, but we serve ourselves, living lives with cogs geared to meet the necessities of self interest. We gamble that diligence will save our mortal souls from everlasting peril as it inoculates our bodies against pain.

Our own thoughts bear witness against us because they elevate the bias of our hearts and minds above all other considerations. When personal metrics determine the standard by which we accuse or excuse other souls, we shall have become primly demonic.

Without guidance by HaShem, we will fall victim to self-serving standards as though they were gods, believing that adherence to their demands will serve us well when a final judgment of our worth is made.

With our days on earth driving nails into our coffins, we console ourselves with the argument that we might yet be justified if we are able to weave threads of kindness spun from the wool of our idealism into the tapestry of our materialistic lives. If need arose from falling short, we could then fall back on decency as merit for mercy.

Imagining that we control our lives, we continue to marshal arguments for self-justification. We brazenly take our stand alongside like-minded zealots, where we widen our stances until we become like Goliath; and we will challenge all comers to defeat the logic of our single-minded focus.

Puffing ourselves up with will power and brandishing our piety for all to see, we will defy any to war against us. We know, full well, in whom we have stubbornly believed and trusted.

Spiritually weak and gullible because of the intense popularity of such reasoning, we are easily misguided and manipulated as we absorb rim shots drummed by humanistic doctrines born of bigotry. Misled in so many ways, our souls watch in silence as their substance is seduced into warring on the wrong battlefield in a world that stands on the brink of planet-killing destruction. The status-quo is guarantor of the bottom line; and so we remain in conflicted silence. distortions. Wisdom is justified of her children.

Goliaths of commerce and finance back their demands by issuing their challenges with the trappings of worldly power and the endorsement of religious shills. They are confident they will accomplish their agendas, but they are unprepared for a revival of such spiritual warfare as was waged by King David, whose bravery confounded armies that had gathered for a final battle. David’s example teaches us to war with songs of wonder, so that those with ears to hear will embrace the wider understandings of life that come with allegiance to the demands of spirit, as hearts answer to hearts.

David’s people were simply proud of him. King Shaul had been an appealing man, and the people credited him with killing his thousands; but of King David, they bragged that he had “killed” his ten-thousands. He hadn’t murdered them, as King Shaul had done in his determination to retain the throne HaShem had entrusted to him, which had become his by his claim. By contrast, humble David avoided confrontation where possible. He preferred to change hearts and minds by using the same playful tactics of restraint he demonstrated as he lay hidden in the brush while King Shaul lowered his skirts in answer to nature. Not by choice a man of war, David preferred to circumcise the enemies of Y'SharAL with the blade of reason.

He was not called to the throne as a warrior, but as a rural shepherd; and in tending the herds, young David’s heart had approached congruence with the heart of God. Their relationship is understood in the symbol formed by the emblems that spell his name, as they are positioned on the Crown Diamond of the Tree of Life. “David dwd” is a sigil for the man whose heart d was wed w with the heart d of messiah: in his lonely life, he had meditated on the reality of his spirit, bringing his perceptions d into alignment w with divine revelation d.

A man of vision, the great poet of the book of Psalms, a prophet, a spiritual warrior, King David understood the saying, “Let not the sound of the ax or the hammer be heard as you build the temple;” for he was a tabernacle man who submitted to God’s spirit.