Thursday, August 29, 2013

"Light-Seeker"

"I sought the LORD, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears." (Psalms 34:4) I might not get the full meaning of a lot of different things, but one thing I know for sure, the closer you draw towards God, the further away your trouble becomes! I know how sometimes I can get a little carried away on a topic; maybe even going beyond the boundaries of 'sound doctrine'; but on the other hand, who is it that is among us that has all the answers: nobody, that's who. And, if you meet someone that thinks they know all the answers, don't listen to them, because they will deceive you with man-made philosophies. The question might come up about David's reaction to the fear that he felt when he realized they were speaking of his fame of killing their people; which would be, "Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands"; however, there was another statement made of him just before they spoke of this, which was, "Is not this David the king of the land?" (1 Samuel 21:11) David may have been anointed by Samuel already, but he had not yet been given the throne; the closest he was to the throne was his friendship with Jonathan and his marriage to Michal, the king's children. As much as it might have been his destiny, in this time of his life, nothing could have been further from the way he saw things: he was running from Saul, hiding in the city of his enemies, and without a plan or a clue of what to do next. So, my question would be, Did David get instruction from God to act like a crazy man? One thing was for sure, is that he needed to remove the appearance of a king, and what is the furthest thing from a king, but a crazy fool? Regardless of what motivated David to do what he did, God's hand was upon that situation, because God's hand was upon David; so, if all of the sudden they were distracted by his craziness, forgetting about his fame, and in fact, wishing he would go away; how is that not God's doing? If God can make a jackass speak, don't you think he can make David be as crazy as it gets? because he was full-on crazy: drooling from the mouth, hanging on the gate, and scrambling around as if whatever he had wrong with him, it was uncontrollable. Would God do something crazy like that? I don't know, but I think our God really does have a sense of humor; and when He wants to, He can do some pretty funny stuff... "And these three men, Shadrach, Mescach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Then Nebuchadnezzar the King was astonished, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God." (Daniel 3:23-25)

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