God is working

When you look out into the world and you see chaos, pain, suffering, all the things that that we see and experience in this life at times, what do you see? Do you see meaninglessness, randomness, pointlessness, or behind it all, is there a God and is one? because it's a good question and it's one that many people oftentimes wrestle with in their lives is how can a good omnipotent allloving God allow evil, pain, suffering, all the chaos in this world and still be present. It's a it's a hard thing that happens. And yet part of the question it begins to come up in that as you inspect it is what is he? See, if we if we're begin to believe that there is some sort of God that has revealed himself, that's the only way to know that something is good or evil or to have some sort of expectations deep down in the way that we're wired that the world ought to operate in a certain way. But why would we think it should or ought to operate in a certain way unless we believe in some stand without? Because if we look at just the chaos of the world and meaning endlessness and we see no God then it's just mechanical systems that are operating there's nothing there is no good there is no evil there's no expectations we shouldn't even have these things deeply wired within us because it just is things just happen but then life has no meaning it has no purpose but something that God has put in us in fact the Bible says he written eternity once and he's put things within us for how the world ought important and how it ought to be why. He's put an understanding even within us that there are things that are good and right, lovely, and true. And yet, they're not revealed just by sort of some universe new age God up here. It's not just some sort of impersonal force, which by the way, it isn't something that actually orders anything in a personal way for us. It doesn't order anything in a good way. It's not working for our benefit. It's once again just mechanical processes. Only a personal and loving God who has revealed us and made us and created us in a certain way makes sense of the universe. Makes sense of these deep feelings within of how the world should operate. Makes sense of the fact there should be good and good should win over evil and that those goods and evils actually exist. Today we're going to be looking at a passage of David. And we've been studying David and his life. We've been studying Saul as we've been journeying through this. And God is going to be working in this test. But David's going to be experiencing some evil. David has done nothing wrong. And yet he is going to have sort of a wrong unjustice or injustice uh cast upon him. And it couldn't seem like God, I'm playing by rules and I'm anointed. I'm supposed to be the next king of Israel. Then why are bad things happening to me? Why is this h what have I done? What is my crime? It just seems purposeless, meaninglessness. These could be the words of David. These could maybe be the feelings of David. But either way, we just know that when we go through hard things or not, when it feels unfair, it feels unjust, it feels wrong or or not right, and we want to see the other people out there, we begin to sort of question, is God doing? What's happening? Is he there? Is he there? Is he watching? And the point of this text today is that God is working. He is at work in the messiest of our lives. So, let's take a look today as I read 1st Samuel chapter 19. I'm going to read the whole text for us this morning. And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David. And Jonathan told David, Saul, my father seeks to kill you. Therefore, be on your guard in the morning. Stay in a secret place and hide yourself and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are and I will speak to my father about you and if I learn any faith I will tell you. And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said not the king sin against his servant David because he's not sinned against you because his deeds have brought good to you. for he took his life in his own hand and he struck down the Philistine being alive and the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoice. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause and Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan. Saul swore as the Lord lives he shall not be put to death. And Jonathan called David and Jonathan recorded to him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul. And he was in his presence as a fool. And there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great blow so that they fled before him. Then a harmful spirit from the Lord came upon Saul. And he sat in his house with a spear in his hand. David was playing a liar. And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with a spear. But he eluded Saul so that he struck the spear into the wall. David fled and stayed that night. Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him. They might kill him in the morning. But McCall, David's wife, told him, "If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed." So McCall let David down through the window and he fled and escaped. McCall took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goat's hair on its head and covered it with the clothes. And then Saul sent messengers to take David. She said, "He is sick." Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed that I may kill him." And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, and a pillow of goat's hair, and its head. Saul said to Maul, "Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go so that he has escaped?" And Maul answered Saul. And he said to me, "Let me go. Why should I kill you?" Now David fled and escaped. And he came to Samuel at Rama, and he told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and he and Samuel went and lived in Naof. And it was told Saul, "Behold, David is at Naof in Rama." When Saul sent messengers to take David and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing his head over them, the spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. Then it was told to Saul, "You sent other messengers." They also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again a third time. They also prophesied. Then he himself went to Rama and came to the great well that is in Saki. And he asked, "Where are Samuel and David?" And one said, "Behold, they are at Naof Rama." And he went to Naof in Ra. And the spirit of God came upon him also. And he went and he prophesied until he came to Naof in Rayoth. And he too stripped off his clothes. And he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all night, all day and all night. Thus it is said is fallen among the prophets. This is God's word. Today as we're uh we're looking at this text um we are going to see through all this that God is at work in this. Even though chaos is happening and it seems like David should be the next king of Israel. And yet it's not really looking good for David right now. He's public enemy number one. We see that God is willing to do work in the midst of David's life even during this trial. And so as we look at it, I'm going to break it down into a few different sections. We're going to look at it in terms of the problem, the providence, and the inner bench. The problem, the providence, and the inner bench. So the first thing that we see in this text is that David is supposed to be killed by Saul. In fact, right there in verse one, it says David fled from Naof in Rama and came Oh, sorry, read verse two. Uh, and Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David. The problem is is that Saul is sinning. He's doing what is wrong. Even Jonathan calls him out on says, "Why would you sin this way? Why would you take it as said blood? Why would you be unjust in this kind of way?" So, he's calling him to account. He It's well of David, right? You're sinning against the Lord. You're sinning against David. And here's the thing. Sin makes life complicated. It's a mess because God ordered the world in a certain way. He ordered us in a certain way. And when we decide like I'm going to do it differently. I'm going to go my own way. Not necessarily even in big ways. Not necessarily even in murder. It's just God said, "Don't eat the fruit that I'm going to eat." Whatever it is. In small ways, we begin to become our own god, make our own rules, do our own thing, and it messes everything up. You find, even in this story, it complicates things. Saul sins, and all of a sudden, there's all kinds of sort of relational politics going on here. Jonath, the heir to the throne, the king's own son, is hiding David, right? He's kind of trying to have to go behind Saul's back. I mean, is he loyal to Saul or not? Is he loyal to his family or not? Or is he more loyal to David, which makes him guilty of treason? But is it okay to be treasonous when it's injust with the king's villain? It's complicated. It's not clean. It's messy. McCall, who is now married to David, she has to hide David and scheme and let him out of the window. And then she lies to her father in the midst of this, which is a whole ethical implication. Is that a lie in a case like this? Not the point of our sermon indictment. At the end of the day, it makes things complicated and it invites all kind of responses and reactions into life. That's what's happening in this text. See, that's the thing about the world that we live in. The problem with the chaos we experience, the problem with the evil that we see in this world, it's because this is a brokenness. God made the world good. He made the glory way and he created us to live in harmonies within that world that he created. And we may think sometimes that when Adam sinned, it wasn't a big deal. They just ate some food that God said don't eat. What's the big deal and problem with that? But what should we fail to sometimes understand are all of the ramifications that expand and come out of that sin makes things see right there in that chapter when they do it all of a sudden it's a rebellion against God. God made you. God loves you. God wired you a certain way and yet you say I can be my own God. That's what they did. You can be like God. you can sort of rise up and do your own thing and you can exercise that own free will apart and in opposition to the will of God and that just tears the entire universe apart because it creates an alternate reality in many ways. We have not only this going on, but right when the sin in the garden happens, you have fear, hiding themselves. You have shame. You have blaming. They're all blaming each other. It's their fault. It's a fault. It's Satan's fault. It's everybody else's fault. And nobody wants to take responsibility. By the next couple chapters, you have murder. Everything starts to get out of balance. And God said, "In the day that you eat of it, this fruit I told you not to eat of, you will surely die." And so death all of a sudden is introduced. And God when we're operating in just the way that God created us in his original creation,  there's life and there's love and there's blessing. When we begin to go our own way, it tears and destroys all of that. It makes it complicated. There are things that are birthed in us that are no longer the way that God wired. It begins to twist and turn things with us. Our desires go different. But it also invoked God's justice. You done against me. You've sinned. You've turned against me. And it invokes cursing. Not just on the people, but the land. So the land now, they're fighting weeds and they're fighting. And so there's turmoil. And all of the things about even the way the earth and the world operates are out of balance. Bible talks about in Romans that the earth is groaning groaning right now because it's it's waiting and expecting God to do his final work of healing and restoring. In the meantime, there's just this sense that things in the world are not all right. And it's not because God made things evil or broken or because he's cool. It's because we've introduced something into this world that has broken everything. And it's broken us and we have all contributed to it in some way. All of us. And if you think about, you know, sort of a steel pond and you throw a rock into it, you see the rhythms that sort of that sort of balance is then bringing. And if we all start throwing the hooks in it, and if I just throw for each one where I've sinned, done wrong, and I have the right heart about this and each of us is doing that. Imagine they cannot sing out. Imagine the chaos that they unleash. One sin begins to have all sorts of imputations. Think about that dumb effect throughout all life, all the world, and how it impacts one another. So that so we see in this world problem introduced by us the evil that you see in this world broken something. So is God giving up on us for we'd be hopeless and you know this is what it is. This is the judgment the punishment of God. He left us our own way. Yeah. Yeah. The Bible reveals God is a God involved and because he loves us that even just kind of like a child when they go their own way how parent loves and tries to show them their mistakes and tries to woo them back and help them to understand and grow them and teach them and train them in the same way God does that with us. And the Bible teaches that the sin happens in the rest of the story is God pursuing people, pursuing his people, calling them to himself, working in ways to restore his people. And so he's not given up on us. He's not giving up on the world. As I've said before, John 3:16, famous passage, right? For God so loved the world, he gave his one and only son. He created a plan and a purpose to redeem and to heal. And so we see even in this story the providence of God working. So that's our second piece is the providence of God is at work in our world even if we don't see it. We can't even always know that God is at work but it's happened. And now providence is God's beneficial activity in the world. intentional ways that he works in this world ultimately for his glory and for his good purpose. It's the ways that God works in this world for his good and for his glory ultimately for his plan. And that plan being to redeem the people to himself. And the Bible teaches that in all sorts of ways God sort of weaves and orchestrates his ultimate plan. In fact, in Romans 8:28, it talks about this. I had to memorize the virgins out and turn around and look at it. But it says, "And we know that for those who love God, all things work together for good for those who are called according to his purpose." God is working good for those who are called according to his purpose. It's not random. It's nothing meaningless. God has a plan. And as we look into this story right here, even in David's life, we begin to see the ways that God is providentially using and orchestrating and setting a stage so that even if there's evil and injustice for him right now, God is working to protect David. He is working to help David thrive so that David will ultimately fulfill the promise and purpose that God has over his life. So is the truth. It is the same for you and him that God was working this ultimate plan. Even with the evil and the chaos and everything of this world when it doesn't work the way that God intended it, he still is ultimately working his plan in the midst of this. And it's hard to sing when you're in the meanwhile. It's hard to understand all the ways of God. You know, Alvin Plantgo once said, he's a philosopher, American philosopher, and he said, you know, the providence of God is kind of like this. If you look, if you have a tent and you look in there and you see a St. Bernard, then you assume St. Bernard's in your there's something that exists in your tent. There's something happening, right? But if you're looking in your tent and you don't see anything, how I'm not ruining this quote, but there are no seums, which is a very tiny body. If you ever been camping or backpacking, they bite just proportionately to their size. You can't really see them, but they hurt. So anyway, no sems. You can't assume that there are no seams in your tent because you can't see them. That's kind of how it works. And so is the ways with God. We don't always see or understand or know reason at work. But that doesn't mean that exactly. God's working in a different plane, a different reality, in different ways sometimes that are often unseen. And so as we look right here, we see the providence of God working specifically in this. For example, we see that Jonathan is defending David. He's standing up for David. And it's a dangerous thing to do. And he's calling out his dad's own sin. Now, this is the guy. He should be preserving his own throne. David shouldn't be enemy number one. He should be working for his dad. But God has orchestrated and made Jonathan love David. Remember a few passages ago, couple chapters ago, talked about how he loved David and he covenants with David and he commits like, "Hey man, we are friends. We're brothers." God has moved Jonathan's heart before this scene ever occurs to be a protector and an advocate and a friend and a companion to David. He's going to be a key individual in this. And so even here he hides David. He warns that hey this there's trouble coming. God is working already by setting Jonathan up in this place. Another thing that he does is that David evades the spew of Saul. I mean, he literally, well, in some ways dodges a spear. Today, say dodge a bullet, right? Like he dodges the spear that's coming at him. In life, we've probably seen moments where like, man, this should have played out way different. And yet, it didn't. Something someone was working there, protecting, preserving. And then also at the same time we see in McCall Saul's daughter how she smuggles and hides. She's another instrumental person. If she doesn't warn David, David could be dead the next day. But God has orchestrated another individual bit. And then God has Samuel out there in Rama and David goes out there and he finds refuge, finds food, he finds shelter, not necessarily protection from the king's people, but he's out there and there are people that's taking and God in all these different ways is orchestrating lives and individuals and people and circumstances. And we're going to see it throughout the remainder of this book how God is always working to preserve and protect Dean because he has a purpose and plan which is unfolding in Da's life. God reveals him as a God in that way. It's throughout scripture just constantly how God says, "I know it's flowing. I know there's evil in the world, but I am at work. I am at work." A couple passages just to bring out for example is that God is with those who are in the trials. Isaiah 43 says to us, "For do not fear. I have redeemed you. I have summoned you by name. You are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. When you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. Will you walk through the fire and you will not burn. The flames will not set you ablaze. For I'm the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior." That is still fire. There's still a flood. Even Jesus told us in this life there will be tribulations and trials. They come and the world is breath. But God is still awakened to them. We see another passage where it says that God is near to the brokenhearted. He loves those who are just broken by life. And there's so many passages here where God is in near those who are poor, poor in spirit, physically poor. He's near the orphan and the widow. Is there so many people who are hurrying and breaking and God has a heart that's working for them, working for the humble, working for the mean things of this world. You see that God uh experienced our pain. This is a really powerful and important thing in Hebrews where God like that's the thing is it's not just that God said oh I'm sorry that you have to suffer and deal with all this. God came into this world. He sent his son who was one with the father and he experiencing all of the brokenness all of the things. He was tempted in every way just as we are. He felt the weakness. He felt the pain. He felt what it's like to be betrayed by a friend. He felt like what it's like to be abandoned by all the people around him. He felt like what it's like in some to be falsely accused, falsely judged. All of the different crazy things that happened in Jesus's life. He felt all of our snakes. He felt like that because God has come to this world. He stood beside us and that we even in our grief, can know that God knows, that God cares, that God is near. That's all. It's it's it's hard when we're walking through it. But you have to know that God understands in a very real way like any other God or thing out there the Christian God. And that he experienced those things because he loved us and he bore those things because he has a plan not just to stand beside us you know and say well I feel bad with you but because he is working ultimately good plan to redeem one that promises his word. Finally God promises to restore. This is an elder. Man, this one's all over scripture. And I just I pulled it from from Isaiah here, but this is just one of many passages where God describes or story what he's going to do. And we have to understand ways that God operates that that don't even make sense. And some of it he's described here in Isaiah where it says, "Look around you and see." So the people have been in exile, right? This is he's prophesying a time when you're going to be exiled and everything's going to be destroyed. And some of you are going to be left behind, but your friends, your family, your loved ones, your children have either been killed or hauled off. But a time is coming. Look around you and sing. For all your children will come back to you. Then you'll think to yourself, who was giving me all these sentence? The rest of my children were killed and the best were carried away into exile. I was left here all alone. Where did all these people come from? Who these children who raised them for me? I think he Lord do this. This is what the sovereign Lord says. See, I will give you a signal to the godless nations. They will carry your little sons back to you in their arms. They will bring your daughters on the loose. Then you will know that I am the ruler. Those who trust in me will never be put to shity. There's this like restoration and God is embossing to a people that have lost in everything. God begins to walk with things of being awesome. How how can he blame that? How does he make this awesome? But yet this is the promise of God to work in ways that are beyond human understanding. God is working and he's called us to trust that process. One of the one of the ways that this is sort of um I think outlined really interestingly is in in a book that uh that is by CS Lewis called The Horse and His Bo. And in this book, Shasta, the main character, is a is an orphan. He was raised by a guy that really wasn't his father. And he finds out all these terrible things happen on this journey of Shasta's life. Hard, rough, terrible things. And he finds himself at the end of the book. He's in the darkness here kind of just like it's all coming to a head. He's just sorrowful and and weighted down and he there's this character in the dark as he's walking with his horse and it's next to him and he's terrified because it won't talk or anything and he kind of says if whom are you and it begins to sort of talk to him in this voice and he can tell it's some sort of creature or anything and this is how this conversation plays out and just listen to it for a second. So this this this creature says to him, "Tell me your sons." Sha was a little reassured by the breath. So he told him how he had never known his real father or mother and he had been brought up sternly by the fishermen. Then he told the story of his estate and how they were chased by lions and forced to swim for their lives and all the dangers in Tashon and about night among the tombs and how the wild beasts roared and howled at them in the desert. And he told about the heat and the thirst of the desert journey and how they were almost at their goal when another lion chased them and wounded Arvis and also how very long it was since he had anything to eat. And then the lion or this creature says, "I did not call you my said the large voice." "Don't you think it was bad luck to meet so many lions?" said Shustin. There was only one lion, said voice. What on earth do you mean? I just told you there were at least two lions the first night and there was only one. But he was swift. How do you know? I left the lion. And as Shaw eng gate with mouth wide open and said nothing, her voice continued, "I was the lion who forced you to join with harness. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackles from you as you slept. I was the lion who gave the horse the new strength of fear for the last mile as I chased them so that they would reach king in time. I was the lion. You do not remember who pushed you in the boat in which you lived. A child near death so that it came to shore where a man sat wakeful and watchful at midnight to receive. The story goes on. It's an interesting story, but one of the things that happens here is the lion is revealing some of the puzzle pieces in Shaw's life that did not fit. And there's so many stories we know of people are who were able to look back and see this trial, this pain, this thing that I walked through begin to make sense. You know, there are for every story like that, there are moments where it's like the no seeds feeling but he can't understand and I cannot make sense of it and I can look back over the course of it and go I just don't I don't understand this doesn't make sense and yet in the midst of that that is available to hold and trust cuz God is reveal himself and he has worked in so many ways and we see in this world in good ways he has been good and sometimes we just have to find that if he has begun a in us. He is contining. Scripture fortunately has given us a name and a language in science to embrace that pain and that lack of understanding. So hope to use or we come before the where are you? I'm waiting. And sometimes when we can't make sense of life, we just hold trust plan of God because his ways are higher than our ways. As scripture reminds us, he is not like us. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. He is beyond us. And he works on a plain and different way, weaving a tapestry of lives and circumstances and incidents. And he's already revealed himself to be showing that he works in ways and he's going to work a work which seems impossible to restore it that doesn't make sense. But at times in life, God does intervene. And so we see the intervention taking place here where yes, there are just random events that God has orchestrated in here, but Saul's on his way and no Campbell prophets is going to stop Saul and his sword from rendering murder upon David. But then God intervenes. And there are moments in life and in this world where God works like that where he literally intervenes into our world. And I I realize this is to our modern years. This is a strange odd story that that's taking place here, especially because we're postmodern, you know, post um enlightenment people of the West. And so supernatural things like this, they just sound off and weird to us. But then if you talk to lots of Easterners, there are all sorts of people who have experienced strange and odd things in this life. ways that God worked that they didn't expect and miracles and and and and and I've gotten even friends that have been missionaries in Africa who've told just strange stories of things that happened in like a supernatural kind of way. But God is intervening here to stop Saul in his tracks. We see uh in in um verses uh 23 and 24 we see that and he went to Naoth and Rama and the spirit of God came upon him also and he as he went he prophesied until he came to Naoth in Rama. He too stripped off his clothes and he too prophesied before Samuel and he lay naked all day and all night. And thus it is said is Saul among the prophets. for the king of Israel who has all the power and who has the sword and has all the the dominoes in his basket. Here comes and yet God moves him powerless and he humbles him through this incident literally strips him of his clothes has him laying in a field position naked day and night and here's the king of Israel and he's like a little infant a helpless child humbled him in this way and this is as scholars virtually agree and say this is really kind of a bookend of a story that took place when Saul first began to be anointed as king. And I was back in chapter 10, you actually look and see chapter 10 and sue and this is a very similar scene that's described. Sandy on the first section say, "Hey, you're going to come to meet the prophets coming down from the high place and then you're going to see the spirit of the Lord will rush upon you and you will prophesy with them and you turn into another man." So this happens when he's first being away, king of Israel. And here's how it plays out a few verses later. It says, "When they came to Gideon, They came to Gide behold a group of prophets met him and the sphere of God rushed upon him and he prophesied very similar incident and it was said is Saul among the prophets only this time Saul isn't changed into a me a better man a man will be the king of Israel a man appointed and equipped no he's stripped down and humbled everything taken from him so he's slaying like an infant on the ground this is a sign of God's humiliation and humbling over Saul's life. This in many ways it's an act of God's justice to rescue and save David in this moment. This is God's intervention and God intervenes in moments like this in life. But the one thing that that I want us to also see why didn't he kill Saul? Why didn't he just take him out? I mean, we could solve this problem really fast. Dead. God doesn't. And it's because God, even in people who aren't fooling, is trying to work a good man. This is an act of grace on God's mind. Saul, once again, you've been humbling this. God is clearly acting here. And humble yourself, Saul. Wake up. God is trying to even work in this moment against Saul's life as an act of grace to him as an act of of warning over his life. You're on a bad path and you're not going to resist my plan. You're not going to win this game. Stop this. But we know as the story will unfold in the rest of the book that Saul will not get. He will continue to rush headlong to his own destruction. and he finds that instead of God working for him with him or or listening to the warnings of God and letting God work him into his good plan in some way, he's fighting against he's fighting against. And so ultimately, we see that there is a judgment and a finality that come in Saul's life as God intervenes at the right time. God acts in mighty ways. We don't always get but I wanted us as we as we as we look at this to see just one way that God promises in the word of what he will be the restoration that is to come. This world is floating. This world doesn't always make sense but I know it's not just kimos. I know it's not just meaningless. And David will see over the course of his life there were acts and things that came together where God was working. sometimes just seem like random that things just events started to work through the providence of God but sometimes the attention that he saw where God sat God did something God moved in a powerful one and that's the way that God is working in this world ultimately that even in now though that God is ultimately through his act of grace through his plan turning hearts and lives and people even in our own lives we resist we go our own way herbing in using events in our life shape us form us love us rebuke us and ultimately God reveals himself in scripture in revelation as what he will do one day so that even if we don't understand the details of life we don't understand the tragedy we don't understand the wickedness I can't make sense of what happened you can know that at the end of the story God promises you do like you foretold in Isaiah for you will make all things right I And so here he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And death shall be nothing. Neither shall be mourning, crying, or pain anymore. The former things have passed away. And he who seated on the throne said, "Behold, I will make all things a new also." He said, "Write this down with these words are trustworthy and if even the story of things we cannot imagine, how is God going to make it move? How is he going to restore things in me that I know I don't know what it's like to live in a world where I don't feel so where loss and death are no more pain it's no more it's like that cut you know we get a cut sometimes that leaves a scar but what God is saying here is he makes it like never was in that skull what you It's hold of that. It's wrath and as slow as impossible, but with God things working. And just as he's working in David's life, he is working in our lives. So where does that where does that leave you in? Where does it leave me? He's are you like Saul? you know, one who believes in a god but yet, you know, sort of really not listening to God's abuse in the ways that God was trying to work and get his attention and draw him using things for listen. Are you resisting this? Or are you like befriended by Jonathan sometimes protecting and defending and you're the instrument that God is using for that or Macall for that? Are you Sam, a refuge for someone in tragedy? A shoulder to cry, a person to call in that moment knee. You know, we all shared in some ways something with David. We can do so much right in this world. We can be serving and seeking the Lord and yet fine there's evil and it doesn't always go the way of mankind. Well, one thing is is that we can take comfort that one day a son of David, Jesus came and he faced the worst evils about so that he might raise us up, heal us, restore things to us then in ways that we cannot imagine. And until then we can trust as scripture reminds.