1 Sam
26:6-12 (ESV) Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab's brother
Abishai the son of Zeruiah, "Who will go down with me into the camp to
Saul?" And Abishai said, "I will go down with you." 7 So David
and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within the
encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the
army lay around him. 8 Then said Abishai to David, "God has given your
enemy into your hand this day. Now please let me pin him to the earth with one
stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice." 9 But David said to
Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the
Lord's anointed and be guiltless?" 10 And David said, "As the Lord
lives, the Lord will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go
down into battle and perish. 11 The Lord
forbid that I should put out my hand against the Lord's anointed. But take now
the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go." 12 So
David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head, and they went away.
No man saw it or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because
a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.
NOTE: David puts
into words his philosophy of God's sovereignty. Because Saul was anointed by
God as king, David felt that he had no right to lift his hand against him.
Technically, Saul was a fellow Israelite and fellow believer in the same God.
David had no authority or command to go after Saul. He did have a promise that
he would be king, but that no time frame was specified. David knew he would die
by one of three methods: 1) God would strike him, 2) his day to die would come
(old age), or 3) he would die in battle. But for David to kill him, it would be
murder. He had no right to take Saul's life. If it came to battle, maybe David
could strike Saul to save himself, but that day never came. David waited upon
God. He did not take things into his own hands, even when others around him
were encouraging him to do so.
Tomorrow I face a
major decision point in my life. It is a job opportunity that I hope will
happen. But it might not. How will I face disappointment if I don't get what I
so desire? Joy is a part of life but so is disappointment. We can try to
protect ourselves from disappointment by dismissing the joy, but then we live
life trying to keep everything on an even keel. Life has its ups and downs, and
my reactions really don't change much. I am hopeful and joyful over the
prospects tomorrow. I can't influence the decision and I don't want to. I want
to be like David and wait upon God's timing. I may be disappointed again, but
life will continue. And I know that God has my best interests at heart. I need
to be committed to things that he has given me to do. And right now, that is my
current job.
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