Nothing Was Missing

There is so much of the salvific in the life Davidic.

1 Samuel 30 recounts the story of David and his army being turned down for service in Philstia's war against Israel and their return home to Ziklag to find it burned to the ground.  The Amalekites had snuck in when the men were out and had torched the buildings and taken away the women, children and livestock.  Can you imagine the alarm in the hearts of the men as they saw the smoke from their hilltop home clouding the horizon?

This was such a severe blow to David's men that their extreme loyalty to him suddenly turned to thoughts of stoning.  David's response was not that of most men in such a powerful position, who would have reacted even more vigorously than the detractors and demanded their lives for such treacherous attitudes.  Instead, David "strengthened himself in the LORD his God."

Having received encouragement and direction from Jehovah to pursue the Amalekites, David acted boldly and not only won back his family and possessions (and those of his men) but brought more back in the form of plunder than they had had before.

"David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken...nothing was missing...David brought back all."

Read that again and think of the Savior.

And now a question:  have you experienced enough of life yet to know the horror of your city "burned with fire" and your wife and sons and daughters taken captive?  Have you wept until you had no more strength to weep? 

Take heart. This Savior of ours has recovered all that the enemy has taken.  Do we experience loss? Yes.  Is there redemption? Over and above.

In the company of the Shepherd-Warrior-King Jesus Christ my interests are safe and secure.