God does not give you up.

 



1 Samuel 23:14 – Jesus is Lord.

“And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.” 1 Samuel 23:14

David is running away from King Saul and yet he seeks God’s counsel to pursue God’s will and not his. He asked God if he should go to Keilah to save his countrymen from the Philistines. Meanwhile, King Saul was secretly trying to capture and kill David in Keilah, David asked God again what he should do. God told him if he stayed in Keilah the men of Keilah will deliver him to Saul even though he helped them fight against the Philistines.

It could have been devastating for David who sincerely asked God for counsel and to receive unfavourable answer from God. David had to flee to the wilderness to save himself. The comfort of the city was robbed from him. And to this David replies in psalm 27.

“I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.” – Psalm 27:13-14

With so much against him he says that he could have fainted, unless he believed in the goodness of God who stands with him. The goodness of God helps us in the land of living for all of us.

Jesus is the goodness of God almighty in the land of the living. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

The definite article [THE] in the verse make it absolute, stamped and authenticated by the authority of God himself.

David followed God that day and God saved him from all his troubles. God did not forsake him. David’s courage was God! David’s strength was God! David’s hope when all things were against him was God!

Can we be like David? When prayers are silent? Life burdens grow heavier every day, and prayers are never answered, do we give up on God? How can we give up on God when God does not give up on us?  

Man’s courage fails because the courage is a misplaced courage. Trying to acquire self-courage leads to uncertainty. Without assurance it is just a gamble. How can we gamble in life when the odds are always against us because we are sinners seeking grace to be renewed every day?

David says I had fainted unless I had believed in the Goodness of God. He knew that on his own strength he could have failed unless he sees God’s goodness. Ask not on our strength but in Christ all things are possible, which strengthens us.  


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