The Footprints In the Sand Syndrome

438, - Today's Prime Time Devo comes from: 2Sa 4:8-11, “And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron, and said to the king, "Here is the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul your enemy, who sought your life; and the LORD has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul and his descendants." 9 But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, "As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all adversity, 10 "when someone told me, saying, 'Look, Saul is dead,' thinking to have brought good news, I arrested him and had him executed in Ziklag-the one who thought I would give him a reward for his news. 11 "How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Therefore, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and remove you from the earth?" ( 2 Sam 4:8-11) Once again David is approached by men who sincerely thought they were doing him a favor. Was this not the son of that nemesis Saul, who constantly sought to kill David? Would not the elimination of Ishbosheth give the kingdom to David free and clear from any more threats from the family of Saul? They claim that God used them to avenge all those years that Saul pursued David. But David makes an oath in the name of the Lord who had delivered him from all his adversity, to execute justice upon these men for killing an innocent man. If David teaches us nothing else let us learn from his determination to trust God to deliver him from adversities. How did he learn this? He learned it from God's track record in his life. Time after time David found himself in adverse situations with the Philistines and Saul, and time after time he waited on the Lord to deliver him. David also remembered and trusted the promise of the Lord given to him in 1Sa 25:29 "Yet a man has risen to pursue you and seek your life, but the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the LORD your God; and the lives of your enemies He shall sling out, as from the pocket of a sling.” The Lord would take care of his adversaries. And finally David knew that the Lord walked with him through all his troubles. “ Ps 31:7b says, “For You have considered my trouble; You have known my soul in adversities,” This is the old “Footprints in the Sand” syndrome.” Believe it. Trust it. Put it to the test! God knows your adversities. Let Him walk you through them. And know that more adversities are coming your way, but be like David and remember the Lord, who has, “redeemed your life from all adversity,”