Our need of dependence upon Him

April 26/12 journal excerpt

   Part of a verse popped out to me the other day in 1Kings 1:29.    In the midst of King David’s now oldest son trying to become King without his Dad’s blessing and a few trying to right it by telling David about it, trying instead to get Solomon in there, David says... "....As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my soul out of every adversity, ..." and it isn’t even a full sentence haha. But here’s what I thought... wow! Oh to be able to say that at the end of my days! 
         
   Here is David very old, at the end of his days and this statement holds such depth when you think about it. I don’t think it is just a saying to say I think through all his ups and downs his mistakes and redemptions he actually lived in enough dependence upon the LORD that this was actually his experience (and as Glenn would say according to his circles message it would be knowledge for him where his beliefs have been lined up with truth in and through experience.) Interestingly, this theme of dependence upon God that requires living out beliefs is coming up again and again for me. When I recall David's life and how he lived he became a beyond competent leader and warrior full of knowledge of how to fight and with the ability to gain the trust and often absolute love of those that followed him. He could easily have run with it, leaning on his own ways and experiences to guide him but time and again he showed a preference and deference to seeking out God first and following Him regardless of what his own logic, emotion or experience told him.  Side note... I think the years he spent fleeing Saul in the wilderness waiting for God's timing and honoring it to an extreme would have been the hardest time for him or in developing his dependence upon God... go with me for a minute... we know that David had done nothing wrong YET Saul wanted to kill him, He knows he has been anointed by Samuel for the role of leading God's people, think about it... it is the classic struggle for self ... I deserve.... I am wrongfully accused, I am suffering without cause, do you know who I am?? And God left him out there a long time... almost like in answering to a question, if you truly want to follow me (to lead a life following me) then you have no recourse but to be completely dependent upon Me.
   
   Now do you think it makes sense that God would ask of us the same thing? The same level of dependence? The same deference and preference to His ways instead of our own?