What David faced, we all face; how David struggled, we all struggle. In varying degrees an in various flavors of sin, but we are all made of the same stuff. There are no super-saints.Now let's apply that perspective to an example from David's...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
If you've ever felt trapped, imprisoned, or helplessly caught by life, then you share the emotions of David in the midst of life in the Cave of Adullam.Things had gotten so bad that David makes a confession that is packed with meaning to us...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
As we come to 1 Samuel 22, we find David hiding in a cave, and living on a day to day, just making it mode surrounded by troubles. His experience is mirrored in the lives of multiplied people across the world. When live reduces to being just...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
David had just gone through an emotional quake that is off the scale. He was still feeling aftershocks, and in Psalm 40 he was remembering life at the bottom, life in the pits. This is what David was feeling as he writes these words: • David...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
As a believer, regardless of the extent of our spiritual maturity, it's possible to reach a point so low we actually feel that everyone—even God—has abandoned us. That was David's desperate condition when he wrote Psalm 13.Psalm 13...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
One of the most fascinating branches of history is the study of tomb inscriptions. Most famous among these are the Pharaohs and their pyramids and their guilded remains among intricate inscriptions hidden away among the rock hewn tombs in the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Everything seems so fragile these days. News gets old in seconds, emails in hours, movies in days, electronic gadgets in weeks, cars in months, and buildings in years. Nothing seems enduring in our world.We live more and more in a world that...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
A life long personal pursuit of worshiping God is not only what God came seeking for (John 4), and what we will be doing forever as Revelation 4 onward teaches us—it is what we are to be now. The definition of true believers as...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
David had a lifelong love for God that drew him to seek the Lord. He was drawn toward the Lord with an embracing kind of love. He is a model placed before us in God's Word of what pleases the Lord.Start with me at the beginning of Psalm 18,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When life winds down, strength gets exhausted, and the end is in sight for you--which summary will fit your life? * Will you look back on life like Solomon? Ending with bitterness, seeing all as vanity, and ending in emptiness? * Or will...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
