TEXT:
1 SAM. 30:1-8
TOPIC:
don’t run/move just yet
This topic will be considered with the following
subheading:
Background to the study
Foreword
Why some people ran/moved in the
scripture
What to do when afraid/confused/thing
are going south
Conclusion
Background
to the study
Saul had with
the discovered intention to kill David which he survived by God’s grace driven him
out of his kindred and country after a chronology of event:
1 Sam. 17 David
kills Goliath
1 Sam. 18 Saul
becomes Jealous
1 Sam. 19 Saul
tries to kill David
1 Sam. 20
Jonathan helps David
1 Sam 21ff David
flees for his life.
David later on
found solace in the philistine town of Ziklag, he then mistakenly went to war
as an ancillary to the army of Philistine but was expelled as a correction. He
reluctantly went back to his abode (Ziklag) to a rude shock, his abode laid in
ruins owing to an invasion by the Amalekites who surprised the city when it was
left unguarded, plundered it, burnt it and carried all the women and children
captive. 1 Sam.30:1-3, just as the enemy plunders gardens when men sleeps Matt
13:25.
May God help us
to understand and correctly appropriate the place of divine direction
(overcoming any pressure from any situation we are/would go through just as the
master said John 16:33) which of immeasurable advantage to us in Jesus mighty
name.
Foreword
Not all movement
is progressive, the Israelites were in the wilderness for forty years, on a
journey that should have taken less than a month Deut.1:1ff.
Steps taken out of
fear often leads to greater calamity, Saul feared men and collided with God, he
didn’t have a second chance 1 Sam 15:24.On the 27th of January 2002
there was a bomb blast in Lagos military armoury, while running out of fear
1100 people died as a result of stampede and in a canal a death that was fear
induced and avoidable.
The personality
or the number of people taking a wrong step will not make it right. David (a
great name and person and also not minding his predicament) had an unholy alliance with the philistines, wanted to fight against Gods people 1
Sam 29:1ff. (Same David had a different testimony not too long ago “who is his
uncircumcised philistine defying the living God 1Sam 17:26). It was this
decision that resulted in the calamity that befell him in 1 Sam.30.10 out of
the twelve spies Moses sent to Canaan brought negative report and that didn’t
lend credence to their testimony or invalidate the testimony of the other two spies
Numbers 13 & 14.
Why some people
ran/moved in the scripture
Harsh economy:
Abraham to Egypt Gen.12:10, Israel’s threefold journeys to Egypt Gen. 42,
43 and 46. (This journey fulfilled the 400 years enslavement earlier prophesied
Gen.15:13).
Unpleasant life threatening experiences: David ran for
his life 1Sam.21-23
Divine direction: Joseph and Mary Matt 2:13,
Isaac Gen.26:1-3, Elijah 1kings 17:4&9
Covetousness, quest for unguided/dangerous freedom: Gehazi 2 kings
5, Prodigal son Luke 15:11
To follow Christ/be his disciple: Peter and
other disciples Matt 19:27, Luke 18:28
What to do when afraid/confused/thing are going
south
It is a time to pray 2 Chr. 7:13-14, James 5:16
It is a time seek answers from God Ps.34:5, 1 Sam.30:8
Get Godly counsels Prov. 11:14
Stay in and with God Prov.18:10, Ps.46:10.
Conclusion
David was in a
very great dilemma, lost all that was important to him: his wives, properties, the
honour that took him years to build as his soldier thought of stoning him and
he still created time to ask God for direction, in same vein Jesus is always
available and ready to guide us at all times not only against physical recovery
only but also for all that is lost spiritually. Come to Jesus today he is
willing and able to save and direct you today .Rom.10:13, Rev.3:10
For we know in
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