"THE thought of David's heart at this time was a false thought, because he certainly had no ground for thinking that God's anointing him by Samuel was intended to be left as an empty unmeaning act.
On no one occasion had the Lord deserted His servant; he had been placed in perilous positions very often, but not one instance had occurred in which divine interposition had not delivered him.
The trials to which he had been exposed had been varied; they had.webp)
not assumed one form only, but many—yet in every case He who sent the trial had also graciously ordained a way of escape.
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*David could not put his finger upon any entry in his diary, and say of it, "Here is evidence that the Lord will forsake me," for the entire tenor of his past life proved the very reverse.
He should have argued from what God had done for him, that God would be his defender still.
Q: But is it not just in the same way that we doubt God's help?
We have had dark nights, but the star of love has shone forth amid the blackness; we have been in stern conflicts, but over our head He has held aloft the shield of our defense.
Q: How can we ever be so ungenerous as to doubt our God?
Lord,
throw down the Jezebel of our unbelief,
and let the dogs devour it."
Charles Spurgeon
