Then the Spirit came upon Amasai,
chief of the Thirty, and he said: "We are yours, O David! We are with you,
O son of Jesse! Success, success to you, and success to those who help you, for
your God will help you." So David received them and made them leaders of
his raiding bands. (1 Chronicles 12:18)
Loneliness can kill sometimes and
David experienced that in his life after fleeing from Saul. Yet God arranged
for brave men to team up with him and fight his enemies.
Sometimes in our Christian walk, we
may encounter loneliness. Perhaps even when we have all our relations nearby,
we may feel lonely because there is no one to say a kind word to us.
The Apostle Paul yearned for
Christian friends; he wrote to Timothy:
Do your best to come to me quickly, for Demas,
because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica.
Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Get
Mark and bring him with you, because he is helpful to me in my ministry.
(2 Timothy 4:9-11)
David was suspicious of the fellows
wanting to join him too, because one of them could tell Saul of his
whereabouts. In such circumstances David trusted in the Lord.
To some he said,
"If you have come to me in
peace, to help me, I am ready to have you unite with me. But if you have come
to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free from violence, may the God of
our fathers see it and judge you." (1 Chronicles 12:17)
The words of Amasai must have
strenghened David a lot.
Amasai said,
"We are yours, O David! We are
with you, O son of Jesse! Success, success to you, and success to those who
help you, for your God will help you."
If you are feeling lonely today, I
pray that the Lord gives you Christian friends who speak kindly to you and
strengthen you with their words and actions.
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