Encouragement From a friend

13. August 2009 by Bernice Davis.

Hello:

Today’s story picks up from where David escaped from the land of Keliah before the people gave him over to Saul.   Let’s look at the continuation of the story.   Here is the text:I Samuel 23:14 David stayed in the desert strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands. 15 While David was at Horesh in the Desert of Ziph, he learned that Saul had come out to take his life. 16 And Saul’s son Jonathan went to David at Horesh and helped him find strength in God. 17 ”Don’t be afraid,” he said. “My father Saul will not lay a hand on you. You will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you. Even my father Saul knows this.” 18 The two of them made a covenant before the Lord. Then Jonathan went home, but David remained at Horesh. As you can see in our text, David was getting a little weary from his being on the run from Saul.  The text says that Jonathan came and strengthened his friend.  Jonathan went on to tell him that he was to be the next king of Israel and even his father knows that.   Isn’t it amazing how when we’re going through, people will come to us and tell us that they can see that God will do great things in our life but we just want the misery to end?   We hear that our mess will be our message and our struggle will manifest our destiny.   BUT WE JUST WANT IT ALL TO END.  We want to get to the other side of this pain.Those are all natural feelings.   While we do not know why God chooses certain routes to allow us to go through to work out his plan in our lives what we do know is that God is faithful and we can trust that God’s plan for us is far better than anything we can come up with and God even works our mistakes and failures together for our good and his glory.David is feeling a little weak but his friend comes to him at this strategic time to let him know that no matter what it looks like now, he is destined for greatness and even in this struggle, the text teaches that God did not give David into the hand of Saul.  God was protecting him the entire time no matter how close Saul got to him.

Jonathan and David made another covenant before the Lord and he encouraged him to not be afraid of his father Saul.Stay encouraged.   No matter what you’re going through, it will work together for your good, and you will come out of it and you will discover the plan of God for your life and it’s going to be so phenomenal.  Just trust him.   I told my husband on last week when I was going through a particular situation that I felt like I was in over my head and he quickly reminded me that I was taking on a burden and a problem that I need not to, he simply instructed me to give it over to God.   I know it is easily said but with time, practice, and experience we do learn to let things go and to give them to God in prayer and to stay focused and move towards our destiny. 

God Bless  and don’t forget to pray and read God’s word daily.

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