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Maranda Curtis Worship Experience LIVE | Worship at Evangel Fellowship COGIC Maranda Curtis joined us in February 2020 for our annual "Love Fest" where we bring together our local community for fellowship. Normally we serve food and "...

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David’s lament provides a lesson about loving our enemies.

For one thing, David never regarded Saul or Abner as enemies. Yes, they delayed his ascension to the throne, slandered him, and hunted him without cause. They forced him to flee his home, abandoning palace comforts for the cold life as a fugitive on the run. However, David never treated the Lord’s anointed king as his enemy or as someone he had any right to harm.

Vengeance and retribution belong to the Lord and Him alone. God had anointed Saul, and God alone had the only right to remove him if and when He saw fit. Not David. Unlike Joab, David’s heart was never set on retribution but on restoration.

The throne of Israel was also not David’s to claim. All thrones, like all crowns, belonged to the Lord. They are given as He wills and could be taken just as easily. That was a lesson he would remember even after he had become king.

Lastly, God’s timing was not David’s. It would be years before David sat on the throne of Israel, something he had been anointed to do as a young man. Whether Saul, Ish-bosheth, or Abner, whoever held power over Israel was there for a reason. All David could do was trust God’s timing and hold to the promises of God when things didn’t seem to make sense, or his path seemed unclear.

David could mourn for someone most of us consider an enemy. Why? Because David stopped seeing Saul and Abner as obstacles to “his” success. Instead, he saw them as instruments in God’s sovereign plan for his life—a plan including enemies, obstacles, and valleys. That plan, if God was writing it, was ultimately good. David could confidently write in God alone:

“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.” (Psalms 23:4-5)