1 Samuel 30 6 David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

It didn’t take David very long to lose the support of people.  The very people that he had rescued were turning on him discussing executing him!  This, to me, is unfathomable and yet it makes perfect sense.  People want all of it.  We are never satisfied with what we have … we always want more.  And, we probably don’t see it until we have been on the side where David sat in this verse.

Thank God … this is not the end of David’s story, or ours.

Our God is on an eternal quest to Recover What The Enemy Has Stolen.

And He has done so from the beginning, and on our behalf.

But how can this be done?  How can you make a covenant when someone continually and consistently breaks it?

God knows.

In Genesis 15, God makes a covenant with a sleeping Abram.  And why not?  You can not “cut a covenant” when the person that you cut it with can not and will not meet up to his end of the bargain.  So God cut a blood covenant with man through the only One strong enough to keep it.

God cut His blood covenant with man through Jesus.

And Jesus lived up to His end of the deal by dying on His end of the deal.

By His blood we are healed.

By His life we have life.

By His resurrection we can have eternal life.

By His perfection we can be sons … and daughters.

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.  (John 3:16)

The enemy will always try to steal from us.  Sometimes he will win the battle.  Most of the time, he will lose.  And He can not win the war.  The battle belongs to the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.

And it is on Him that I stake my life.

He … is MORE than enough.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J