I need to write...I don't want to write...it's a challenge when tears distort your vision! It's a challenge when you want to walk in love and you are hurting from what people are doing to you while you stand on a stage and allow them to throw rotten tomatoes at you! You could step off of the stage, you could throw rotten tomatoes back...but would God be glorified? No...there's nothing about throwing things at each other that is glorifying to God.
OK, so I'll write about dodging tomatoes and not returning them! When David was anointed as the future King of the Hebrew people the current King, King Saul, kind of lost his mind! He was outraged at the praise that David received in song about killing more of the enemy than he had. He was outraged by David in pretty much everything, he actually started throwing spears at David! I guess rotten tomatoes are better than spears, right?
We would think that David would have been in his own rights to throw spears back, but he didn't. He dodged the spears, he ran for his life, he hid...when he had the opportunity to put it all at an end and kill King Saul he refused and simply clipped his robe. You would think that would have brought King Saul back to his senses and for awhile he would return to his senses but then again he would loose his mind! There is a lot more to this biblical story, but the point I'm getting to is my purpose in sharing it. 1 Samuel 24
David glorified God by dodging, running and hiding...not the way most Americans have grown up to act, right? but it glorified God that David trusted himself to God's purpose. We are to leave all things in His hand and trust His future, trust His timing, trust His anointing. Even when things are beyond our understanding, trust that they are not beyond God's understanding, trust your standing and your future to Him. Nothing surprises Him, He knew you would have rotten tomatoes thrown!
Maybe I'm writing this as an encouragement for me, but I hope it encourages others also.
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