What if the pressure you feel was never yours to carry?

All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.
1 Samuel 17:47

He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness… He has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
Colossians 2:13–14

What if obedience is not how you secure victory, but how you live from it?

Then the men of Israel and Judah surged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines…
1 Samuel 17:52

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith… not by works, so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:8–9

What if God’s justice doesn’t require you to become hardened?

The Lord forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed…
1 Samuel 24:6

Don’t destroy him! Who can lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed and be guiltless?
1 Samuel 26:9

When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate… Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly.
1 Peter 2:23

Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.
Luke 23:34