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Day 79 or March the 20th. Don't forget your family

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responsibilities. Our thoughts today are rooted

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in 1 Samuel chapter 22 verses 3 and 4. David

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went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of

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Moab, Would you let my father and mother come

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and stay with you until I learn what God will

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do for me? So he left them with the king of Moab,

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and they stayed with him as long as David was

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in the stronghold. First, the big picture surrounding

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these verses. Even though David had been anointed

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as king, he resists any temptation to replace

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Saul by force. He still accepts him as king and

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the Lord's anointed, and is willing to wait for

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God's timing to become king himself. Even though

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David would be a popular choice amongst the people,

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he knows that God's timing is best. Saul is not

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sure that David won't kill him, so he spends

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a great deal of time and effort trying to kill

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him. Killing David would make his own position

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safe and guarantee that his successor was Jonathan,

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ironically David's best friend. David is protected

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and supported by priests, and is fed by them.

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This results in Saul killing the priests, which

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goes a long way to confirm that he is now totally

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unsuitable to be king. But still David waits

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for God to act, rather than take over with a

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violent coup. And now today's action step. I

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worked with a man some years ago and discovered

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that he had not seen his parents for many years.

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In fact, he wasn't sure where they lived or even

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if they were still alive. This shocked me because

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my colleague was a very sociable man in the office.

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It's interesting that David, who has been anointed

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king, but who is constantly on the run because

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Saul wants him dead, takes time to look after

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his parents and takes them to a safe place, to

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a friend who will take care of them. I've seen

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too many Christians who, in responding to God's

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recent call, neglect their earlier call to be

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a caring relative or friend. Be sure that you

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are a godly child or parent before you can think

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about being a godly worker. It's all part of

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being a godly disciple of Christ.