posted on March 14, 2010 04:30
1 Samuel 19-26
An innocent man is pursued like a criminal, running for his life! It’s a storyline made for television and movies – but the plot isn’t new: Three thousand years ago, Israel’s greatest soldier, a national hero, became its public enemy #1! God recorded it all…with lessons for our lives today.
Hero on the Run: The Travels of David the Fugitive
• David flees to Samuel at Ramah (19)
• Jonathan warns David to flee at Gibeah (20)
• A stop-off with priests at Nob, then on to Gath! (21)
• David gathers 400 followers at the cave of Adullam (22:1-2)
• Jesse’s family is spirited away to safety in Moab (22:3-4)
• David hides in the forest of Horeth; Saul kills priests (22:5-23)
• Victory at Keilah; escape in wilderness of Ziph and Maon (23)
• David spares Saul at En Gedi (24)
• David hides in wilderness of Paran, and marries Abigail (25)
• David spares Saul’s life in the wilderness of Ziph (26)
Lessons For Life from a Sorted Tale
• Evil consumes, and is never filled!
• Sometimes the best way to fight evil is on a dead run!
• Don’t take vengeance: It seems sweet, but leaves you bitter!
• When you feel like you can’t ‘escape’ sin’s grasp, give your situation to God in prayer – and He’ll make a way of escape!
I cried out to you, O Lord: I said, “You are my refuge,
My portion in the land of the living… Bring my soul out of prison,
that I may praise your name.” Ps 142 5,7 (NAS)
(written while David was hiding in the cave)
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