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1 Samuel 21:1-9David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled
when he met him, and asked, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
2 David answered Ahimelek the priest, “The king sent me on a mission and said to me, ‘No one is to know anything about the
mission I am sending you on.’ As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place. 3 Now then, what do you have on
hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.”4 But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread
on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here—provided the men have kept themselves from women.”
5 David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever I set out. The men’s bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!” 6 So the priest gave
him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the
LORD and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.
7 Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD; he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul’s chief shepherd.
8 David asked Ahimelek, “Don’t you have a spear or a sword here? I haven’t brought my sword or any other weapon, because the
king’s mission was urgent.”9 The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here but that
one.”David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
1) David in fear and desperation initially relies on deceit and manipulation to get
direction from the priest
1 Samuel 22:9-109 But Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul’s officials, said, “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelek son of Ahitub at Nob. 10 Ahimelek inquired of the LORD for him; he also gave him provisions and the
sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
1 Samuel 21:13So he pretended to be insane in their
presence; and while he was in their hands he acted like a madman, making marks on
the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard.
When dealing with uncertainty we tend to vacillate between two extremes:
CONTROL<…………………………………………>AVOIDANCE IN BETWEEN LIES MADNESS
Let go of both the illusion of control, and the fear that produces avoidance and you will find peace.
Psalm 34:1-61 I will extol the LORD at all times;
his praise will always be on my lips.2 I will glory in the LORD;
let the afflicted hear and rejoice.3 Glorify the LORD with me;
let us exalt his name together.4 I sought the LORD, and he answered me;
he delivered me from all my fears.5 Those who look to him are radiant;
their faces are never covered with shame.6 This poor man called, and the LORD heard him;
he saved him out of all his troubles.
Praise necessitates ACCEPTANCEACCEPTANCE is the key to sanity in a
world you can neither control nor predict with any certainty
Psalm 62:11-1211 One thing God has spoken, two things I have heard:
“Power belongs to you, God,12 and with you, Lord, is unfailing love”;
and, “You reward everyone according to what they have done.”
Luke 6:1-5One Sabbath Jesus was going through the
grainfields, and his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat
the kernels. 2 Some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”
3 Jesus answered them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions
were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God, and taking the consecrated bread, he ate what is
lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.” 5 Then Jesus said to
them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
John 6:35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will
never be thirsty.
John 6:47-5647 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal
life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. 50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever.
This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have
no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in
me, and I in them.
1 Samuel 21:8-98 David asked Ahimelek, “Don’t you have a spear or a sword here? I haven’t brought my sword or any other weapon, because
the king’s mission was urgent.”9 The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath
the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here but that
one.”David said, “There is none like it; give it to
me.”
1. Seek direction……Let go the illusion of control and avoidance….Trust the all
powerful…all loving God