the turn you didn't take

The Word for today: 
1 Samuel 29:1 -- 30:31
mark this: 1 Samuel 29:11

David has stepped out of the Promised Land and has aligned himself and his men with Achish, a Philistine leader.

But as the battle against King Saul and Israel approaches, the other Philistine leaders do not trust David's motives. They are worried that David, in the midst of battle, will turn against them and fight once more for Israel.

So Achish must ask David to leave.

David couldn't have known it at the time, but this is clearly by the hand of God. It delivers David from fighting his own people, something he would have regretted the rest of his life.

We do not realize how many times God intervenes in our lives when we step over the boundary, out of his will.

We ask God to deliver us from evil (1). And He does--often without our knowing, out of the range of sight or understanding.

A lot of our salvation consists of the turns we didn't take.

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(1) Matthew 6:13