7/9/2010
9:35:08 AM
SPIRITUAL
DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: From Keilah to the wilderness of Ziph
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: 1Samuel 23:7-18
Message
of the verses: “7 ¶ When it was told Saul that David had come to
Keilah, Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand, for he shut
himself in by entering a city with double gates and bars." 8 So Saul summoned all the people for war, to
go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men. 9 Now David knew that Saul was plotting evil
against him; so he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod
here." 10 Then David said, "O
LORD God of Israel, Your servant has heard for certain that Saul is seeking to
come to Keilah to destroy the city on my account. 11 "Will the men of Keilah surrender me
into his hand? Will Saul come down just as Your servant has heard? O LORD God
of Israel, I pray, tell Your servant." And the LORD said, "He will
come down." 12 Then David said,
"Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of
Saul?" And the LORD said, "They will surrender you." 13 Then David and his men, about six hundred,
arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When it
was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the pursuit.
“14 ¶
David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the
hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand. 15 Now David became aware that Saul had come out
to seek his life while David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh. 16 And Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to
David at Horesh, and encouraged him in God. 17
Thus he said to him, "Do not be afraid, because the hand of Saul my
father will not find you, and you will be king over Israel and I will be next
to you; and Saul my father knows that also." 18 So the two of them made a covenant before the
LORD; and David stayed at Horesh while Jonathan went to his house.”
I can see the wonderful heart of
David in this section because of his care for the people of Keilah. David was not only looking out for the men he
had under his command, but by leaving Keilah he was looking out for them as
well. David saw what Saul did at Nob and
it hurt him greatly, so he does not want to see this town destroyed like Nob
and so after inquiring of the Lord he decides to leave and travels to the
Horesh. It is at Horesh that Jonathan
comes to see him, as he risks his own life to see his friend David and renews
their covenant and tells David that Saul realizes that he will never catch
David and that David will become king and that he will serve with him. However this was not the plans of the Lord as
the next time Jonathan is mentioned in 1Samuel is at his death while fighting
the Philistines on the battlefield where his father also dies.
David then moves to the wilderness
of Ziph which is near the Dead Sea, and Dr. Wiersbe comments that after being
there it is a wonder that David and his 600 men could survive there, but the
Lord was with David and would protect him from the hand of Saul as mentioned in
the highlighted portion of the text for today’s SD.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I can see
that through all of these trials and tribulations that David is going through
that the Lord is teaching him and making him to be the man He wants David to
be. There are trials in my life as well
and I pray that I will handle them as well as David handled his trials,
submitting to the Lord and continuing to rely on him to be his strength in
troubled times.
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
Put on the
whole armor of God: the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the
shoes of the gospel of peace, take up the shield of faith, put on the helmet of
salvation, and take up the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
2.
To begin to memorize and meditate upon verses that
will change my life and to be transformed by the renewing of my mind as I fill
my heart with God’s Word.
Memory
verse for this week: 1Thes. 4:3.
3 For
this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from
sexual immorality;
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