Today's Passage: I Samuel 30-31
These chapters contain some more war and battle scenes that David has experienced. So what is happening here is that a group had come in and taken David's wives captive as well as others while he and his army were out. David then calls to Abaither for the ephod so that He could determine the Lord's will on whether or not he should chase down the Amalekites (the one's who had raided his people and taken his wives.) So, the Lord grants him that he will be successful. They end up taking everything back that was taken from them.
In the last chapter here, we see that King Saul, his armor bearer, and his army all die on the same day. It's clearly an opening for more ways in which God can direct His people. It was 40 years earlier that the Israelites were in the same position of being without a king. So what will happen next is seen later on.
As for a take away from today's passage, I wanted to transport your thinking to the Psalms, specifically one like Psalm 18. In this Psalm, David speaks of God as being his Rock, Fortress and Deliverer. Oh how this is so true in and seen throughout the life of David. It has been for good to refresh my memory of the life that David lived so that when I read the book of Psalms, I can begin refer back to the happenings in his life. David relied upon God in many ways! How are you relying upon God and are you taking the time to thank and praise God for His goodness to you?
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