There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

God’s promise for him to be king. Samuel anointed David, and God said he would be the next in line as king after Saul. But in 1 Samuel 27:1 David confessed that he should soon “perish one day by the hand of Saul.” He chose the road of least resistance. The Philistines hated Saul, and Saul feared the Philistines, so the enemy of my enemy is now my friend. The loss of a person’s faith is a serious spiritual issue. In the parable of the unjust judge Christ asked, “When the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). Even throughout the Torah God warned His chosen people not to forget His law and His benefits. When David was confronted by the Philistine king, David said he was willing to fight against his own people, including Saul and his men. David had a large entourage of solders—six hundred—who were mighty men of war who followed him into battle. They were given a town called Ziklag as their headquarters, a place to move their wives and children. David’s willingness to fight against his own people reminds me of how wounded Christians are often willing to betray other believers , exposing past secrets they know about others and verbally turning against their own church because of hurts and wounds. Ziklag was a town on the border of Judah. The idea in David’s mind may have been that if Saul was after him, he could simply return to Ziklag, and if the Philistines turned on him, he could hop the fence and be back in Israel on Judah’s side. However, the man who walks the middle of the road will eventually get hit from either direction!