Protesting Your Innocence

I Samuel 29:8 And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? And what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king? Some people are always throwing their elbows. They...

The Right Thing is Simple

I Samuel 25:26 The Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand. I believe it was Dwight Eisenhower who had a special kind of formula, a chart, by which he made decisions. Eisenhower, of course, was the Supreme...

The Opportunity and the Test

I Samuel 24:7 So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way. Francis Bacon supposedly said, “Wise men make more opportunities than they find.” Sometimes we are sitting...

A Rogue Ally or an Honest Enemy?

I Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so...

From Whom Do You Expect to Gain?

I Samuel 23:16 And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God. Yesterday I was driving from Oklahoma to my home on the Bill Rice Ranch. Oklahoma has a lot of toll roads, and we were driving up to a toll when we...