7/11/2010
7:57:04 AM
SPIRITUAL
DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: David’s temptation
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: 1Samuel 24:1-4
Message
of the verses: “1 ¶ Now when Saul returned from pursuing the
Philistines, he was told, saying, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of
Engedi." 2 Then Saul took three
thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front
of the Rocks of the Wild Goats. 3 He
came to the sheepfolds on the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to
relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the inner recesses of
the cave. 4 The men of David said to
him, "Behold, this is the day of which the LORD said to you, ’Behold; I am
about to give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it seems
good to you.’" Then David arose and cut off the edge of Saul’s robe
secretly.”
“1 Save me, O God, by Your name, And
vindicate me by Your power.” This is the
first verse of Psalm 54 which David wrote after the Lord had spared his life
when Saul came upon him with his many men, but the Lord caused the Philistines
to raid a village to which Saul left David and went to attack the Philistines. David knew of his innocence and thus he asked
the Lord to vindicate him as this verse in Psalms says. God did give him the chance to kill Saul, but
David would not do it because Saul was the Lord’s anointed and not his
enemy. David wanted Saul to stop chasing
him because he was not his enemy.
This is the background to today’s SD
as David finds Saul in the same cave with him but Saul did not realize that
David was there because Saul was using the cave as a restroom.
I believe that the whole point of
this section of Scripture was what should David do with Saul since he was right
there in front of him ready to be killed, but David, who had killed many men by
this time surely believed that the Lord would care to Saul’s death when and how
He wanted and David was sure that he would not be involved in the killing of
Saul, for after all Saul was David’s king and also his father-in-law.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: Warren
Wiersbe calls this sub-section to his 3rd main section in this
chapter “David’s temptation,” and this was a temptation for David for even his
men were not on his side for choosing not to kill Saul, for they wanted him to
do so and even believed that the Lord presented this opportunity for David to
kill Saul. This all involved David’s
character and up to this point it had be flawless. Now suppose David would have given into this
temptation and killed Saul while there were 3000 of Saul’s men just outside the
cave. Even if he got away David would
have been a criminal and a man with a price on his head, and a man would
probably would not have been the next king in Israel, at least not with the
character he would have had if he allowed God to arrange the death of Saul.
With all of this said I think that
the point that I get from this has to do with temptation and how to handle
it. “There hath no temptation taken you
but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to
be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way
to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”
This is how I am to handle temptation, to believe that God can take care
of any temptation that I have.
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
In order to
handle temptation God’s way I have to put on the spiritual armor: 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.
Learn to be content.
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8:26:40 AM
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