Chapter 29-30 brings more challenges for David, he was force to live among the philistines, but still he does not have a good reputation in their sight. I like the fact that even though David was rejected by the lords of the philistines to go to war against Israel (1 Samuel 29: 6-11) he was given an opportunity from God to rescue his wives and his soldiers wives and all their families and properties from the Amalikites.
How do you react to the limitations in your life? Limitations could be new opportunities to be blessed in ways that we did not imagine before.
In the other side of the story King Saul was engaged in battle that will terminate his life. He was very persistent in his purposes but at the same time very ungodly in his lifestyle. Saul is a very clear example for us that when do God’s work we need to do it very close God’s heart otherwise we will end up ruining our lives and the lives of the people that is connected to us.
Other important lesson that I think we need to learn from Saul is our necessity to be accountable. Yes we need to depend on God but also we need to depend on others men and women of God that can nurture and advice us in our journey in the Kingdom of God.
I do not like sad ending, but the reality is that without God there is not any happy ending. Saul had a great beginning, but a very sad end.