Reading
SAA Notes
David does Saul’s job – he delivers Keilah from the Philistines. The people of Keilah are like us – in their pragmatic ethics. David is long-suffering. David’s unsuccessful attempts to win Saul through sparing his life reveal why we need Jesus – He is the one who could meet a ‘Saul of Benjamin’ but once and win him! Acts 9:1-8.
SJA Notes
* Dear God Above, You know our folly, the wrongs we have done are not hidden from You. Please deliver us from sinking in the mire!
“And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.”
Saul raged and plotted, but could not capture David.
There are similarities here between David and Jesus.
In Luke 4 we read that the rulers and teachers rose up and brought Jesus to a cliff to throw Him off of.
“But passing through their midst, he went away.”
God kept Him from the hand of His enemies. Just as God kept David from the hand of his enemy Saul.
We see clear David’s strong and steady conviction in God’s sovereign hand at work.
Even though from one perspective so many problems would have been solved – David looked at his interactions with Saul from a heavenly perspective.
David trusted that the Lord would fulfil His promises in His time without David needing to take any shortcuts.
Jesus was not able to be taken until the time appointed by God Himself.
It is what C.S. Lewis so wonderfully tells us in the character of Aslan giving up his life, surrendering himself to the enemy.
Jesus, God in the Person of the Son, submitted under His Father’s will, was taken, became a curse for us – So that we would have blessing, life eternal, rescue from the wrath of God (the just punishment for our sin).
We can be exhorted to trust in God has we see David doing here, in His sovereign hand at work in our lives.
* Dear God,
Your mercies and grace abound to us, thank You!
Thank You for coming to earth and becoming curse for us, so that we would have such blessing as being saved into an inheritance of eternal life.
Thank You Lord!
Amen.