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“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” (1 Samuel 27:1).
Here we find a rather low point in David’s life. David and Abishai, one of his men, had just gone down into Saul’s camp at night, while they were all asleep, and taken Saul’s cruse (jug) of water and his spear. David had returned the spear to Saul, and Saul had admitted to David that he was wrong to keep trying to kill him. Yet in spite of this encouragement from the Lord, David became discouraged, and went over to the Philistines, who were the enemies of Israel.
It can be this way in our lives, too. Satan often attacks us after a victory, and persuades us that it is not worth it to follow the Lord. He tells us that we will have an easier path if we become a friend of the world. But the Word of God says, “Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God” (James 4:4). The Lord preserved David, but he got into some serious difficulties as a result of this decision. Read about it in 1 Samuel, chapters 29 and 30.
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