DAY TWENTY-TWO (1 Samuel 28:20 – 2 Samuel 12:10)
It dawned on me as I read 1 Samuel31:5 that if armor-bearers typically were killed if the king they bore the armor for dies in battle, then David would have died here. Makes me wonder if, when David heard about this, he had one of those “so THAT’S why a got held up by the train” moments. Interesting to look back and see how God has used even the negative circumstances in our lives to protect us from what was coming.
Twice – once in 2 Samuel 1:1-16 and again in 2 Samuel 14 – someone tried to impress the King with what they thought was good news and they ended up dead. Discernment, discernment, discernment. Something I need more of.
God is pretty creative. 2 Samuel 5:24 reveals another pretty strange sign of victory: the sound of marching in the tops of the trees.
