"Pause For Cause" -2

"Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation." (Psalms 35:3) For those of you that may not know, Laverne, better known as Pastor Romaine, was Pastor Chuck's assistant pastor for many years; a true servant, not first, but Second. Okay then; here we have a very interesting situation; one that requires complete trust in God, and complete surrender to the fact that you are called by God for a particular reason. As I was saying the other day, David ran out after Saul after having realized what it meant to be king, and after having caused his men to consider not killing Saul, thereby letting Saul get up and leave the cave upon finishing his business. Try to imagine you were in David's shoes, just for a moment; knowing that the reason Saul was there with three thousand chosen men, was to take you out, would you run out in the open and express your loyalty to someone that was out to kill you? But this is exactly what David did; and more than that, he actually showed Saul the part of his robe that he was holding in his hand, and making him very much aware of the opportunity he had to do him harm, yet that he would not because he was still the king, God's anointed. Not a big deal? When it's not a real time situation, sure you can say that; but David was making a very bold move, taking complete trust that God would stay the hand of him that sought to take his life, and believing that he was going to be the king; yet for now, he was not first, but second; and as second, he would do all that he could to serve the first. He made that very clear, in what was only a few minutes of speaking, but a few minutes that mattered in the journey David would be taking to the throne. There are always those defining moments in any journey to fulfill that which you are called to do; moments when you have those "do or die" kind of situations; after all David did not have to run out after Saul, and take the chance that he did; but the pressure upon his heart to make things right, far out weighed the fear of anything that Saul could do to him. Understand the principle application of what happened, and when it comes do doing that which you feel is right, verses that which you feel is wrong. Always choose that which is right! And if for some strange reason you don't know what is the right thing to do, then weigh it with God's Word; let the Word of God point you in the right direction. David knew in his heart that he was going to be the next king, but until that should happen, he was servant to the current king; and as the king's servant, not only would he not cause the king any harm, but would do all that he could to prevent harm from coming to him. That's the true heart of a servant... "Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself." (Philippians 3:15-21)