"Stay here with me, and don’t be afraid. I will protect you with my own life, for the same person wants to kill us both." ~1 Samuel 22:23, NLT
David was on the run from Saul, and he had stopped in a little town called "Nob" where priests lived. He and his men were hungry, and David needed a weapon, so he asked the priests for food and a weapon. All they had was the sacred bread and Goliath's sword - so David took the bread and ate it, and the sword and used it.
Suffice it to say that someone told the king, and Saul was furious. He told his men to kill the entire priestly family of Ahimelech - because they had helped David. Interestingly enough, Saul's own men wouldn't do it, but an Edomite did. Of the 85 people in the household, only one young man escaped to tell the tale, and he is the one who ran to David. Upon hearing the story, David told the young man the above words - stay with me, don't be afraid, I'll protect you because the same guy wants to kill the both of us.
David was not God, but he still made some pretty potent promises. "I'll protect you with my own life"!? If a man after God's heart said these things, how much more will God himself say them? If a man of God's own heart would do those things, how much more will God himself follow through? David didn't have to fall through on the promise to sacrifice himself, but God did - He sent Jesus.
What then, should we say today? Today we choose to stay in God's arms, in His promises, and choose to fear not.
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