Today we come to 1 Samuel 17-18 in our read-through-the-Bible plan. Here is some help from Bob Deffinbaugh, at Bible.org: In the end, it is not so much that David is great, but that the God he serves, the God who went before him, is great. Saul seems to focus on the size of the enemy rather than … More Thank God for our Champion, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.—from 1 Samuel 15-16, our reading for today John Piper, in a sermon, “The Pleasure of God in Obedience”, comments on 1 Samuel 15:22- … More God delights in obedience
For the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself. 1 Samuel 12:22, part of our Bible reading plan today) John Piper comments: We should learn from this how faithful God is to his own name. Look at verse 22: “It has pleased the … More What is the deepest foundation of God’s faithfulness?
In 1 Samuel 9-10, our reading for today, Samuel meets Saul and anoints him king. Here is a devotional from Ligonier which highlights the providence of God in this passage: According to Westminster Larger Catechism 11, “God’s works of providence are his most holy, wise and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all … More Samuel Meets Saul
Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, “Till now the Lord has helped us.” 1 Sam 7:12 (1 Samuel 6-8 in our reading plan today) Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing Thy grace; Streams of mercy, … More Here I raise my Ebenezer; Here by Thy great help I’ve come
The reading for today, 1 Samuel 29-31, brings us to the end of this book. Bob Deffinbaugh offers this encouraging commentary at Bible.org- God’s sovereignty is so apparent in the rescue of David and his men from military service, service to the Philistines and against Israel. God uses David and even his sin to achieve His … More Thousands of unguessable ways God rescues
And David answered and said, “Here is the spear, O king! Let one of the young men come over and take it. The Lord rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the Lord gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the Lord’s anointed. Behold, … More The Lord rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness
And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave. And the men of David said to him, “Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, ‘Behold, … More Providence and a Pit Stop
Bob Deffinbaugh, in a commentary on 1 Samuel 21:1-22:4, “A Man Without a Country:” Many like to think of David as a real man. I believe our text portrays him as a real man. He does not always think or do the spiritual thing. He has a heart for God, but he also has feet of clay. David … More 1 Samuel 21: Lessons in Deliverance
in 1 Samuel 20, in the reading plan for today, we read of the friendship of Jonathan and David: Then Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” Bob Deffinbaugh at Bible.org: … More One word sums up what this chapter is all about
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