BLOGABOUTIT.COM July 13, 2011

Part 2

Hey there!  I’m back with part 2 of Mad Grace!

We move on to chap. 17 of I Samuel, the whole chapter (it’s a fairly long set of passages but it’ll  help you get the picture) wherein we begin to get a sort of bird’s eye view into why grace for King David albeit unwittingly, becomes a weapon of choice.  David has won a major battle, all by his lonesome, for the people of Israel (he was a teenager at the time).  It’s proven to be a stunning victory won purely by faith and a little ingenuity (grace to act on that faith).  Afterwards, he’s anointed king.  By chapter 18, King Saul is a bit perturbed at all the props David’s getting as a result of his building reputation.  We read in my earlier blog that the Lord has expressly anointed David as king, yet and still, Saul, as was his usual manner, is blatantly not abdicating the kingship to him.

I know right?  Weird ain’t it?  I mean just there within the aforementioned set of scripture, we learned that Saul has all but lost the right to lead the nation at the hand of the Almighty God Himself and is still attempting to pull rank.  A-ma-zing!

Anyways moving through the story, David is proving his salt as the rightful leader of Israel, time after time, after time.  Yet over the years, his well-being becomes compromised and ultimately, he is pursued into some hills by whom else but none other than Saul and is forced to live about 3 years of his life as pretty much destitute.  Our boy Saul is definitely on one.

There comes a time when at I Sam. chapter 24, verses 1 through18, David finally has his 1^st chance to take ole King Saul out but doesn’t.  He mentioned his reason for not doing so at verse 10.  At chapter 26 within verses 1 through12 there is yet another example of the grace that is on King David’s life.  Therein is recorded his 2^nd chance to get his adversary but because of his heart being after his God, David tolerates and forgives (there’s that take on grace from my laptop dictionary).

Okay guys, it’s gettin pretty good.  Hope you come back real soon . . . .  Say in another couple a days.