“Leave It With The LORD!”

“Leave It With The LORD!”(I Sam.26:1-12)[18/11/24]..
It is a sound piece of advice that you do not use a sword to kill a fly that settles on your scrotum.
King Saul went out with three thousand chosen men of Israel to search for David. Saul and his army pitched camp. Saul and Abner were “lying inside the camp, with the army encamped around him.”
God gave Saul into David’s hands. Abishai, one of David’s aides told him, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of my spear; I won’t strike him twice.”
David may have been a sworn enemy of Saul, but Saul was never a sworn enemy of David. David told Abishai, “Don’t destroy him! Who can lay a hand on the LORD’S anointed and be guiltless? As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD himself will strike him; either his time will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish. But the LORD forbid that I should lay a hand on the LORD’S anointed. Now get the spear and water jug that are near his head , and let’s go.” And they did just that. And nobody in the camp noticed David and his men. Saul and his men “were all sleeping, because the LORD had put them into a deep sleep.”
My friend, if you were David, would you have done?
The LORD who fights our battles may put those who hate us in our palms, but he does not want us to take undue revenge over them. “Vengeance is of the LORD.”
Some take home lessons from the text:

1. When the LORD is no longer on your side, no army is strong and vigilant enough to guard you against those whom you hate.
2. No army is strong and vigilant enough to track down the LORD’S anointed whom you hate.
3. Do not listen to your aides who give you advice to eliminate those you hate.
4. There is a season for everything. Wicked people will die too; either by natural means or through their own very excesses.
5. Lastly, if you are on the LORD’S side, he will put your enemies to sleep.
   Prayer of the day and week: Dear LORD, give us hearts like that of David. Amen!
   Welcome to a new working day and week! Have a blessed day and week! Peace be with you!
   Rev Babila Fochang.