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Throughout the Scriptures, God often sent famines to get His people to respond to something they needed to correct. The verse above shows this to be true when God sent a famine because Saul had unjustly slain a group of people. The blood of the Gibeonites had to be avenged, and the only way God could get David to do this was to send a famine. David responded accordingly, and God ended the famine.

One of the more tragic stories in the Scriptures is the story of Uriah and Bathsheba. We often hear of Uriah’s courage when he would not go into the house with his wife because his countrymen were at war, but I believe there is a greater lesson that contributed to what happened in their marriage. Though King David’s contributed greatly to this situation, I believe the marital breakdown between Uriah and Bathsheba enabled this sin.

David may be the most thoughtful person mentioned in the Scriptures. What is amazing about David is that his thoughtfulness process went from God to friends and family, and then outside influences. He understood the importance of remembering those influences who helped him get to where he was. He never acquired the mentality that he did everything himself. He truly understood that there were influences in his life who helped him to climb the corporate ladder.

David was running for his life when King Saul had his annual feast where mandatory attendance of his cabinet members was expected. This put David in a bad position because he knew if he went that he would probably be assassinated. David sent word to Jonathan, Saul’s son, and asked him what he should do. Jonathan came up with a plan for David to stay out of town for a night, and at the first night of the feast, he would see if David would be missed because his seat was empty. Of course, David was missed, and Saul became angry at Jonathan for protecting David from being killed.

No army would go into battle with the goal of losing the war. Army troops would not go into battle without the weapons needed to fight the war and defeat the enemy. It would be total foolishness for a leader of a brigade to tell his troops to leave their guns and weapons of war at the camp while they went to fight the battle. That would be ludicrous!

Tuesday, 4/12/16  Are you sad today? Lots of burdens? Health poor? Lots of pressure? 1 Thess 5:18, In every thing (not for every thing) give thanks. You can, at the same time, be spiritual and be having a hard time.            So, however hard you’ve got it, go live like Christ would if He wore your shoes today.                 Tit 3:3, For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. Don’t ever forget what a wicked sinner you were; don’t ever get so “holy” that you’re tempted in any way to look down on one still enslaved; don’t ever become too good to get a little bit dirty helping another get out of the pit...even if “they should’ve known better” or have been in the pit multiple times.

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When Samuel was taking the leadership role over Israel, he was taking a country that was spiritually bankrupt. Eli overlooked sin because he didn't want to deal with the sins of his sons. Because of this, Israel had set up gods to worship, lived wicked lifestyles and had become captives to the Philistines. When you see the condition of Israel when Samuel took over, you will see that sin left them the same way it will leave you when it has taken its course.