Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Topic: Safety is of the Lord 19
Reading: 1Sam 23:7-14, 1Sam 18
Scripture: And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars. (1Sam 23:7)
Note: David was left in no doubt that Saul intended killing him out of jealousy. Saul felt that David’s popularity and growing fame were becoming a growing problem threatening the present and future direction of the throne. Unfortunately, David’s innocence that was the only genuine weapon that he possessed for his defence was not given the needed platform by the king for exoneration.
If David managed to come out alive from the palace after the double assassination attempts on his life, he had God to thank for sparing his life. It was not for David’s efforts, intelligence or fighting skills that saved him. All his focus and attention were on the debilitating mental condition of the king. So long as his skilful hands and eyes stayed on the lyre, the demons that tormented and oppressed Saul seemed powerless, and the king was able to retain his sanity for a while. Saul seemed to show gratefulness for this critical service rendered by a talented servant in the person of David.
However, when Saul finally made the decision that David must die if his throne was to remain intact, the issue of David’s critical service in providing temporary reprieve for the king’s sanity became irrelevant. Issues regarding political decisions directly affecting thrones, often do not have the luxury of time to analyze the past positive deeds of the affected individual under consideration for wipe out. Decisions are taken and implemented with speed to cut out the spread of the cancer. David’s phenomenal victory over Goliath that saved a whole nation and a throne, had suddenly become an albatross hanging on the neck of the king and the decision makers in the palace.
Neither could David’s growing fame with the soldiers when he was made a captain over a thousand troops when he relocated to the palace, was enough to speak any good on David’s behalf. In relocating to the palace, everyone could attest to the fact that David comported himself so well that Saul’s servants and the soldiers all took a liking to him for behaving himself wisely. Yet, these noble virtues enumerated all in favour of David, failed miserably in speaking loudly to David’s defence. Just like Jesus Christ appeared on trial before Pilate prior to his crucifixion, all the past healings, miracles, feeding of the multitudes and even raising their dead back to life all counted for nothing as the ominous sound of death reverberated with synchronized voice, “crucify him, away with him.”
Food for thought: It is fruitless to put your faith in man at the most critical point in your life. Faith in God is the only reliable anchor for redemption.
Declaration: But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrew 11:6)
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
