April 2026

 1 Samuel 25:29 – 39

Daily Reflections

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“If anyone should attack you and try to kill you, the Lord your God will keep you safe, as someone guards a precious treasure. As for your enemies, however, he will throw them away, as someone hurls stones with a sling.”

May you guard me as a precious treasure, Father.

“…when the Lord has done all the good things he has promised you and has made you king of Israel, then you will not have to feel regret or remorse, sir, for having killed without cause or for having taken your own revenge.”

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 1 Samuel 25:12 – 28

Daily Reflections

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David’s men went back to him and told him what Nabal had said. “Buckle on your swords!” he ordered, and they all did. David also buckled on his sword and left with about four hundred of his men, leaving two hundred behind with the supplies.

Ouch. When did this technology come to the Israelites (1 Samuel 13:19-22)? I once thought that it was when David sejourned in the Philistine controlled territories (1 Samuel 27:1-4) but that came later…

One of Nabal’s servants said to Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Have you heard?

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 1 Samuel 24:20 – 25:11

Daily Reflections

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…Saul said, “…How often does someone catch an enemy and then let him get away unharmed?”

Surprising. In however many years that remain for me here, Lord, may I do surprising things.

“Now I am sure that you will be king of Israel and that the kingdom will continue under your rule.”

Frustrating. So why didn’t Saul respond accordingly and avoid all the needless suffering that was to follow?!…

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 1 Samuel 24:5 -19

Daily Reflections

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They said to him, “This is your chance! The Lord has told you that he would put your enemy in your power and you could do to him whatever you wanted to.”

This was indeed the fulfillment of God’s word to David! But to what end? What would you want to do? What would you do?

David crept over and cut off a piece of Saul’s robe without Saul’s knowing it. But

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 1 Samuel 23:7 – 18

Daily Reflections

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Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, and he said, “God has put him in my power. David has trapped himself by going into a walled town with fortified gates.”

How quickly we declare what God is or is not doing when it corresponds to what we want! After years of this second guessing, I have learned to simply just do the next right thing that’s in front of me.…

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 1 Samuel 22:17 – 23:6

Daily Reflections

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The king said… to the guards…, “Kill the Lord’s priests! They conspired with David and did not tell me that he had run away, even though they knew it all along.”

For Saul, he only could see his personal interests and a world without David in it; a man consumed by hate. Beyond sad.

Saul also had all the other inhabitants of Nob, the city of priests, put to death: men and women, children and babies, cattle, donkeys, and sheep—they were all killed.

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 1 Samuel 22:4 – 16

Daily Reflections

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Then the prophet Gad came to David and said, “Don’t stay here; go at once to the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

A prophet that directs an individual – a bit exceptional, no? In any event, the model largely changed with the arrival of the Holy Spirit (Romans 12:2).

One day Saul was in Gibeah, sitting under a tamarisk tree on a hill, with his spear in his hand, and all his officers were standing around him.

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 1 Samuel 21:1 – 11

Daily Reflections

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David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.

And so it begins… This part of David’s life – on the run – will give birth to the Psalms, much in the in the same way that Job’s life mired in his own grief gave birth to the book in his name. Thank you, Father, for these absolute gems.

David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest.

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