Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Topic: Safety is of the Lord 3
Reading: 1Sam 23:7-14
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: Saul’s obsession with getting at David became his main preoccupation as a king, abandoning his first call to duty and foremost priority of providing security for his people. Instead, valuable intelligence time, military resources and men were urgently deployed all in earnest against trapping their hero, David, and flushing the young life out of his potentially promising political career.
Saul’s methods were direct, dastardly and left nothing to the imagination. His obsession with eliminating David, God having rejected him and his kinship after the disgraceful debacle in the fight against the Amalekites in which he spared Agag, the king and the fatlings of the livestock much to God’s anger and against the express instruction of God to destroy everything without fail. The result was to witness a troubled king without God’s Spirit, His Presence, His Protection, His Power and without any divine cover, to be haunted by evil spirit.
Saul’s obsession with David, an anointed of God, and wanting to kill the young lad who was incidentally the skilled player on the harp able to calm Saul down whenever he was troubled by the menacing evil spirit, using his skilled, anointed hands on the strings, was to witness a relapse in the uncooperative king, his obsession turning into depression during a stringing session by David. The result was a thrown javelin by Saul at point blank, that miraculously missed striking David by a whisker.
This close shave encounter with death, was the act that awakened the young man, David to the grave danger that lies ahead of him. The divine hand of God playing no small measure in protecting, guarding and guiding David through the tempest of the stormy waters as he daily navigated through the complex tapestry of traps and landmines in his way. David could only have survived all these dangers with the superior, overbearing hand of Jehovah in his life.
Food for thought: A moment of encounter with God is worth more than a lifetime of man-crafted wisdom and protection.
Declaration: No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord. (Isaiah 54:17)
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
