have you ever felt like you are doing what God called you to do and yet everything seems to be going wrong? what are your emotions in these times? how do you typically respond?
david was experiencing one of these times in 1 samuel 19. he is doing what God has called him to do, and saul and his men are repeatedly trying to kill him. the questions had to have been flying, and i think we see some of that in psalm 59 (the psalm david wrote in the midst of this trial).
i think it is important that we notice two things in this time where i would guess david was questioning God's call.
first, where did david "run" to. he ran to samuel. and what does samuel represent for david? someone he was familiar with and who was safe, but most of all...someone who david trusted to speak God's truth. he had done it before (samuel is the one God used to anoint david) and i believe david trusted God to use samuel again.
secondly, God sent his Spirit into the midst of david's situation. i think partly to modify the situation, but mainly to remind david that the Spirit of God was at work and that he didn't need to question God's call, but instead he needed to simply keep the vision.
i wonder how often we are willing to wait patiently for the Spirit of God to show up and affirm God's call in the midst of our questions and uncertainty. we live in such a face-paced, jump-from-one-thing-to-the-next society, that often we simply assume that when the questions start flying it must be time to go somewhere else and do something different.
david waited. the Spirit showed up.
to watch the Spirit of God completely take over...rendering saul helpless, naked, and prophesying...and for this to be the same guy that had been hurling spears at him...had to have been a reassuring moment for David.
do we wait long enough for the Spirit of God to bring his reassurance to us in the midst of our questions and uncertainty?
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