A series of events

Samuel 30

This was the day where peace was avenged, and it moved me.

But David had compassion in his heart, not because he cared for the people, but because he knew how much God had been with him through it all: when God told him he would take over his enemies, when he saw that his men were strong, and when he gave food to a stranger, after he had not had anything to eat for days. He recognized the supremacy of God. He knew God was more powerful than his situation, and he could trust in God to save him. Just as when David wrote as one of his Psalms: “I am the Lord your God, who will never leave you nor forsake you. The Lord God is my helper; what can man do to me? If God is for me, then who can be against me?” Did he know these songs would be passed down for generations to come? No. He only wanted to worship God not because God was going to be angry with him if he did not, but because God loved him and David knew that. How else could he respond to true love than to offer thanks and acknowledgment to the one, true God? He could not help himself. The same feeling was in this moment: how much he wanted to do what was right, not because God would be more pleased with him, because God knew David’s heart, but out of his own, natural trust for God (developed by God in his life over the years), he wanted to give the plunder to all. He knew the plunder would be needed by everyone. If everyone were to enjoy it, then there would be less greed. How can one want to take from someone else when they are amply supplied to contentment? And that is what happened. David trusted God that he would not need all the plunder for himself; God would give him what he needed when he needed it. Just as David experienced in childhood how God killed the giant, Goliath, because God gave him the strength he needed. David wanted for nothing.