David

I had deleted this blog because I felt, I didn't have enough to put down on "paper," but I do!!!  I do!!!  I have been going through a study of David (Beth Moore study) and I have just been learning a great deal. I see how David is just a man (person, if you must be PC) like us.  He loved God with all his heart but he made mistakes just like we do. I have been battling a lot in my life this past month and what sticks out the most right now is 1 Sam 24. This is the passage where David and his men where hiding in a cave and Saul comes in to relieve himself and David sneaks up behind him and cuts off a piece of Saul's robe. David has the perfect opportunity to take revenge on everything that Saul has put him through. BUT he doesn't. He lets Saul live (again). He does let Saul know what he could have done if he lived according to the ways of the world..."an eye for an eye."

1Sam 24:8-11
David came out and shouted after him, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked around, David bowed low before him.Then he shouted to Saul, “Why do you listen to the people who say I am trying to harm you?  This very day you can see with your own eyes it isn’t true. For the Lord placed you at my mercy back there in the cave. Some of my men told me to kill you, but I spared you. For I said, ‘I will never harm the king—he is the Lord’s anointed one.’  Look, my father, at what I have in my hand. It is a piece of the hem of your robe! I cut it off, but I didn’t kill you. This proves that I am not trying to harm you and that I have not sinned against you, even though you have been hunting for me to kill me."

I pray I keep God's word close to my heart. I want to be like David and seek after the heart of our God.