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Today’s Bible Reading: 1 Samuel 28-31

Today’s Devotional: 1 Samuel 28:1-2

David’s Favor

The favor the Lord had given David before and in the presence of his natural enemy would have been unheard of, and rightfully so, apart from the Lord the favor over our enemy is impossible. It is only by the Word of the Lord washing over our hearts, us staying in relationship with Him, and obeying His Words that we overcome and have favor over what desires to enslave and ensnare us time and time again.

The Philistines now desired to come over against Israel, the Philistines are now once again knocking on Israel’s door because they had forsaken the Lord and His Word. If Israel would not had rebelled against the Lord and His Word the past few hundred years since Joshua, there would have been no Philistines to come against them at this point. There would have been likely different challenges but it would not have been the same repeated offense that they kept getting overtaken and enslaved to. And if Saul would not have forsaken the Lord then Israel would have been taken out of danger from the Philistines by this point in his reign.

The Philistines took this opportunity when David was among them and with the death of Samuel to enslave Israel once more. Achish expected to have David’s support, but David was reluctant to commit any assistance.

When trials and difficulties happen in our life whether it be overcome by a sin or short coming in our life or a fall out and disagreement with another, we should be cautious not to jump so quickly to anything opposite we see in God’s Word. We may discover quickly that our commitment to the opposite truth of God’s Word or the demise or wrong to come upon someone who has wrong or offended us will take root and grow. The opposite of God’s Word that sin will take root in our life is that God could never love us for what we have just done and what we keep doing and the opposite of God’s desire in a relationship is that this is over and it’s not worth saving or there’s nothing worth restoring in it. Both of these can be no further than from the truth what God has already done for us Paul wrote to the Colossians about in Colossians 1:12-13; He DID qualify us, He DID deliver us, He DID convey or transfer or citizenship. These things are not something that have to be redone or can ever be taken away, the Greek tense Paul uses here is the Aorist tense, meaning that something did happen in the past and there’s no need to repeat that exact action again, it’s finished is what Paul is saying.

For the sole reason that this is not the heart of the Lord we should not be overcome continually by the same sin in our life or that we should take advantage of a situation for the demise of another. And we do this by keeping the Word of God constantly washing over to refresh our hearts so that it’s God’s Word which instructs our life, we staying in relationship with the Lord by talking with and spending time with Him in what He is speaking to us from His Word, we don’t just zoom through the Word but we sit and talk to the Lord about it and grow in the knowledge of it’s intention and purpose in our life, then we obey what it is He’s telling us as we grow in the knowledge and understanding of it. This is the mighty fortress on The Rock which is not overtaken.