“REMEMBER”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 520

March 30, 2021///

In my Bible study I am reading about David.

Yes, the one who Samuel had anointed as the next King of Israel.  The one who slew Goliath with Goliath’s own sword and became King Saul’s son-in-law and was a mighty military leader.

David knew his God, knew God had chosen him as the next King of Israel and I am sure felt as if he was in a position now in the kingdom to be ready to take the Leadership of this Nation when it was time.

But then there was a cog in the wheel!  Are you familiar with this old saying? It means the wheel stopped turning!

The people praising David’s warrior ability stirred up jealousy in Saul who had already been told by the prophet Samuel that because of disobedience the kingdom was being taken from him.

In his desire to keep the Kingship he set out to kill David.

So here was the next King of Israel, instead of dwelling with the King and getting in place to rule, running for his life!

1 Samuel 22:1 (KJV)
David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him.

Even David’s family was having to get away from Saul for fear of what he might do to them.

May I ask you to take a moment and consider how David must have felt.  We tend to think of David as victorious and mighty, and he was that, but he was also human.

I think he must have gotten discourage and even considered that maybe the prophet Samuel had gotten it wrong.

Maybe it crossed his mind that if God had really anointed him as the next King of Israel, he would not be running for his life.  I wonder if he ever just got so tired of running and fighting that he was ready to give up and let Saul find him and kill him.

Have you ever been there? Have you ever felt like you missed what God was telling you to do? Have you ever decided that you need to give up that dream and settle for the status quo and the familiar?

I think David must have had those times.  And then I think of him hiding and considering his relationship with God Almighty. I can picture him remembering back when he cared for his family’s sheep, how his heart praise the God of Israel with his words and playing on his harp.

Maybe he started softly singing in the cave where he was hiding:

Psalm 8:1 (KJV)  

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

Psalm 18:1-3 (KJV)
¹ I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
² The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
³ I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

Perhaps he sang; “Lord you are my Shepherd, and I shall not want!”   And continued, “Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me”!

David remembered the God who was his strength and his deliverer.  This gave him the strength to press on to the victory the Lord God had for him. 

We know that David became King just as God said and led Israel with a strong and mighty confidence in the God who had called him.

What about you.  When it looks like things are going opposite of what you have felt God has called you to, do you know intimately the one who gave you the assignment.

Can you look back and say, God did it then and He will help me now.  Can you remember the times God showed up in your life and gave you victory? 

Can you begin to sing of His goodness when thing look anything but right in your life?

May I encourage you to relive the promise in you heart and mind and understand that in spite of obstacles from others, the enemy, or our self, God will take us to the throne He has called us to if we will bow at His throne with Praise and understanding of who He is!

As I close, let me remind you that David, knew who he was and who His God was.  Yes, as the Psalms clearly show us, he got discouraged and in despair, but he consistently knew that Praise was his weapon and used it to overcome!

Do you know who you are and who your God is!

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Father, in Jesus’ name I come.  Thank you that you are my deliverer, my very present help in trouble.  You are my strength and my guide. And your plan for me will prevail! Help each person who read this to understand that with you nothing is impossible, and you will fight for them as they use the weapon of Praise.

Love, MeMaw