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Day 80, or March 21.

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How will you be remembered?

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Our thought today is from 1 Samuel chapter 25 verse 1.

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Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled, and mourned for him, and they buried him at

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his home in Ramah.

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Then David moved down into the desert of Paran.

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Here's the big picture of this verse.

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As David continues to be on the run from Saul, he finds he is given a golden opportunity

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to kill him, but rejects it, and then attracts his attention when he shouts, in chapter 24

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verse 12, May the LORD judge between us.

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Perhaps the LORD will punish you for what you are trying to do to me, but I will never

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harm you.

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He really was a faithful servant of the LORD's anointed, and honoured him as such.

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In the next chapter David has another chance to kill Saul, but despite encouragement from

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his men, to finally conclude the whole issue, David won't, because he sees Saul as his

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king, not as his enemy.

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You would think that David's loyalty was now beyond question, but Saul never seems to

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get it, as he struggles with the idea of David rather than Jonathan succeeding him.

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Now our action step for today.

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When Samuel the prophet and kingmaker dies, he doesn't even get a whole verse announcing

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it in the Bible.

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He is the only man in the Old Testament who has two books that bear his name, and yet

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his passing is almost overlooked.

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I know some folk who have already planned their own funeral, and if that is in order

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to keep it brief and point people to Jesus, that's fine.

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However, if it's simply to make sure that none of their great works or deeds is forgotten,

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then they should get those plans out and take another look at them.

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I would like to think that I have lived my life so that whoever takes my funeral will

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be able to tell the truth.

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That seems to me a fitting tribute for any of God's children.

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The last thing I want is for my funeral to be so abounding in praise that folk begin

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to ask, whose funeral was that?

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I think I've come to the wrong one.