God's Sabbath

C HAPTER 15

David’s Deliverance

A prayer-filled careful reading of 1Samuel 27–28, together with Patriarchs and Prophets 672 to 674 and 691can help to deepen the understanding of this chapter.

The Problem Given to God

Of course God would not have been able to work for David, if in his extremity he had desperately sought to extricate himself, while calling on God to help him do so. Fortunately, David did not make this mistake. Fully aware of the seriousness of the sit uation and fully conscious that his own devisings were the cause of his dilemma, he realized that to maintain his previous course of problem solving was to surrender himself completely into Sa tan’s power. His only hope was to cast the whole burden onto the Lord and leave it there for Him to provide the solution. And this is precisely what he did. Then David proceeded to build a strong and active faith in his divine Problem Solver to support his sol emn determination that, no matter what the cost, he would not join forces with Achish against God’s people. We have already seen that whenever we are surrounded by danger, if we refuse to dwell on our distressing circumstances

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