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February 8 - 1 Samuel 27 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends. Sean, here it is Thursday, it's
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  the 8th of February and that is actually Boy Scout Day.
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  Did you realise that today's Boy Scout day?
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  There is so much to celebrate about being a Scout.
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  I don't know if you or someone you love was a Scout or is a
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  Scout. I was a Scout when I was a young
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  tyke and I had so many good times.
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  I remember boy camping out in the pouring rain, tying so many
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  knots to build our campsite that were just impossible to untie
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  when the rain had dried. But we learned so many things,
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  and I was reading about Scouts, and they said scouts are
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  trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind,
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  obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.
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  Boy, if the world had more scouts that behaved like that or
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  people that behaved like that, it would be a better place,
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  wouldn't it? So today on Scout Day, why not
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  do a good turn for somebody else that's doing something for
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  someone else where you get no benefit from it at all?
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  That sounds like a good little challenge.
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  Why don't we see if we can do that, friends?
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  Why don't we see if we can do something for someone else when
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  it actually has no benefit to us?
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  I'm up for the challenge. I hope you are too Happy Scout
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  Day. But today, besides being Scout
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  Day, is also the day that we have a relatively short reading
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  today, where David is forced to do the unthinkable to stay away
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  from Saul. He's forced to take up residence
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  with the Philistines. Yep, that's right.
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  Let's read it together. First Samuel Chapter 27.
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  But David kept thinking to himself, Someday Saul is going
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  to get me. The best thing I can do is
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  escape to the Philistines. Then Saul will stop hunting for
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  me in Israelite territory and I will finally be safe.
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  Sir David took his 600 men and went over and joined Akish, son
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  of Mayoc, the King of Gath. David and his men and their
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  families settled there with Achish at Gath.
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  David brought his two wives along with him, Ahinoam from
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  Jezreel and Abigail, Nabal's widow from Carmel.
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  Word soon reached Saul that David had fled to Gath, so he
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  stopped hunting for him. One day, David said to Akish.
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  If it is alright with you, we would rather live in one of the
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  country towns instead of here in the royal city.
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  So Akish gave him the town of Ziklag, which still belongs to
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  the kings of Judah to this day, and they lived there, among the
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  Philistines for a year and four months.
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  David and his men spent their time raiding their Gesha Rites,
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  their Jerseyites and the Amalekites, people who had lived
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  near Shur toward the land of Egypt since ancient times.
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  David did not leave one person alive in the villages he
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  attacked. He took the sheep, goats,
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  cattle, donkeys, camels and clothing before returning home
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  to see King Akash. Where did you make your raid
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  today? Akish would ask and David would
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  reply against the South of Judah, the Jeremie Lights and
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  the Kenites. No one was left alive to come to
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  Gath and tell where he had really been.
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  This happened again and again while he was living among the
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  Philistines. Akash believed David and thought
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  to himself by now the people of Israel must hate him bitterly.
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  Now he will have to stay here and serve me forever.
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  Lord, today we offer ourselves to you.
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  Where would you have us go? What would you have us do?
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  Where is that corner? In our lives?
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  In our part of the world where Your grace is most needed?
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  Holy Spirit, prompt us, Move us toward your destination.
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  Lord, continually shape our hearts and attune our conscience
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  and our ears. That we would hear your voice.
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  That we would feel your prompting, and that we would act
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  on behalf of your Kingdom and thank you our God.
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  That even if we are not wise enough or not well enough
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  attuned to your voice to do your will at every moment in this
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  day, that you love us nonetheless, that you forgive
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  us. That you draw us into Your
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  embrace because of what Jesus has done, So that we imperfect
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  people can be in your presence, our perfect God.
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  Thank you for your love for us and your inclusion of us in your
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  family. It blows our mind and we are so
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  grateful and we can pray all of this in the name of Jesus.
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  Amen.