The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in 1 Samuel 30:6b,
"But David found strength in the Lord his God."
Some of us fancy ourselves as being pretty sharp, fairly intelligent with skills and abilities. We may feel we see things others don't, that we are not easily fooled or deceived. As a matter of fact, in our sinful condition, we may often feel fairly confident in ourselves because we are so sharp.
The problem with such an attitude, such an outlook, (not even considering how odious we may become to those around us) is that we feel we are self-sufficient. We can handle things, we can figure things out on our own. This being the case, we may find ourselves fiercely independent. We don't need the help of anyone else.
One who is caught up in such thinking never feels they have need of anyone, even God. It is hard to embrace a savior when we do not feel the need of a savior. As such the Lord has his own ways of showing us our need of him. It is in this kind of way the Lord draws us to himself. He shows us we have great need of him.
I'm not suggesting David had troubles in this regard particularly, however the Lord is relentless in his pursuit of cultivating within us a strongly felt need we have of him. In this way we look to our Savior as the One we find our strength in, our hope in, our confidence in. This is true whether we happen to be a great man of faith as David was or if we are simply a newbie with the Lord.
In this passage we find the Lord renewing David's sense of dependency upon him by placing him in a very difficult spot. Not only was David suffering the loss of his family to the Amalekites, his own warriors began to talk of stoning David for leaving their families unprotected.
In the midst of what must have been a very difficult spot for David, we see the Lord's goal of it all playing out, "David found strength in the Lord."
Quite possibly the very difficult circumstances we face at times (and we all face them at points in our lives) are those things the Lord "works for the good" in our lives, Romans 8:28. It is in this way the Lord helps us believers find our strength in him.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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"But David found strength in the Lord his God."
Some of us fancy ourselves as being pretty sharp, fairly intelligent with skills and abilities. We may feel we see things others don't, that we are not easily fooled or deceived. As a matter of fact, in our sinful condition, we may often feel fairly confident in ourselves because we are so sharp.
The problem with such an attitude, such an outlook, (not even considering how odious we may become to those around us) is that we feel we are self-sufficient. We can handle things, we can figure things out on our own. This being the case, we may find ourselves fiercely independent. We don't need the help of anyone else.
One who is caught up in such thinking never feels they have need of anyone, even God. It is hard to embrace a savior when we do not feel the need of a savior. As such the Lord has his own ways of showing us our need of him. It is in this kind of way the Lord draws us to himself. He shows us we have great need of him.
I'm not suggesting David had troubles in this regard particularly, however the Lord is relentless in his pursuit of cultivating within us a strongly felt need we have of him. In this way we look to our Savior as the One we find our strength in, our hope in, our confidence in. This is true whether we happen to be a great man of faith as David was or if we are simply a newbie with the Lord.
In this passage we find the Lord renewing David's sense of dependency upon him by placing him in a very difficult spot. Not only was David suffering the loss of his family to the Amalekites, his own warriors began to talk of stoning David for leaving their families unprotected.
In the midst of what must have been a very difficult spot for David, we see the Lord's goal of it all playing out, "David found strength in the Lord."
Quite possibly the very difficult circumstances we face at times (and we all face them at points in our lives) are those things the Lord "works for the good" in our lives, Romans 8:28. It is in this way the Lord helps us believers find our strength in him.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just respond and let me know.
Trevor Fisk
trevor.fisk@gmail.com
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