March 31, 2022: Day 69 – I Samuel 16-20 and Psalm 59

So probably the most precious and maybe some of the most important verses in the Bible are found in I Samuel 16:7.  God does not look as mortals see, they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.  Is this a blessing or a curse for us?  Is this good news or bad news for us?  What a great verse.  

We then have the all popular verses about the battle of David and Goliath.  One of my favorite places to go when we are in Israel is in that same location where David picked up his five smooth stones.  I have my own smooth stones that I picked from there and brought back home.  They remind me of how God continually does the impossible especially when we think it is not possible at all.  

We then get this interesting verse that the soul of Jonathan became bound to the soul of David and they are everlasting friends from that time forward.  Jonathan consistently saves David’s life as he warns him of his father’s anger for him and his unreasonable attempts at his life.  Twice King Saul looks to kill David with his spear and it isn’t until Jonathan suffers the same fate that he realizes that maybe my dad isn’t too crazy about David after all.  

The Psalm around 59 all contain times in David’s life when he is fleeing from Saul.  This one is called the psalm that David wrote when Saul ordered his house to be watched in order to kill him.  It is filled with pleas of deliverance and a recognition that God will absolutely save him from this fate of potential death.