Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 24, 2025
                    
                
                
                    God’s mercy sometimes arrives as discomfort; pain can become grace when it turns us from pride to reverence before His holy presence.
                
                    
                        1. When triumph turns tender
The Philistines thought they had finally beaten Israel’s God.
They carried the Ark of the Covenant into the coastal plain like a trophy from a conquered foe.
The Ark—God’s throne on earth, the sign of His covenant—was now sitting in the temple of Dagon, the half-fish,
                        
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