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Hard Days

Some days are just plain hard. Not just difficult, or challenging, but hard. David is one of my favorite characters in the Bible, not just because he wrote many beautiful psalms, but because he knew a thing or two about hard days. 1 Samuel, Chapter 30 speaks about one such day that David had. He and his men had just returned from battle to discover that their wives, children, and property had all been stolen. Yes everything they had that made life worth living, gone in the blink of an eye. Who knows when the last time was that they had seen their loved ones...days, weeks, maybe even months prior. The Bible goes on to tell us that the men were so overcome with grief that they even wanted to stone David. After all they had to blame someone right? And if it wasn't for David leading them to war, they could have been around to protect their families. Now here comes the strange part...with all the tumult going on around him, and his own grief of having his family stolen, David encouraged himself in the Lord. Wait a minute, so you're telling me he didn't throw a pity party for himself? In fact no one would have blamed him if he had, wallowing away in grief as everyone else was. The next thing David did was to enquire direction from the Lord. He didn't just set out blindly, He waited on God's word.
And David inquired of the Lord , "Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue, for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue."
1 Samuel 30:8 ESV
When we go through hard days it's so tempting to blame God, or try to run away from Him; for after all we have to blame someone right?
Child of God turn to God, and praise Him not just on your good days, but on your hard days as well.

David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives. Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken. David brought back all.
1 Samuel 30:18-19 ESV

I believe with all my heart that God hates dishonest scales, and His desire is to right every wrong, dry every tear, and fight the battles of His children. For we are His, even on hard days.

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