Training ground…

   

The training ground….

I heard the song the Reminder the other day…it fit this part of David so well…his years in training…the making , training of a king….

“THE TRAINING GROUND

David had been anointed king at the tender age of 17, but only sat on the throne at the age of 30….”web article..

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh. In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.’” So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.

2Sam.5.1-5

Various author suggest that Psalm 139 as written about that time as well…he was introspective in what Gods was doing in his life…

O Lord, you have searched me and known me! 

You know when I sit down and when I rise up;you discern my thoughts from afar. 

You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 

Even before a word is on my tongue,behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. 

You hem me in, behind and before,and lay your hand upon me. 

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;it is high; I cannot attain it. 

Where shall I go from your Spirit?Or where shall I flee from your presence? 

If I ascend to heaven, you are there!If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 

If I take the wings of the morningand dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me,and your right hand shall hold me. 

If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,and the light about me be night,” even the darkness is not dark to you;the night is bright as the day,for darkness is as light with you. 

For you formed my inward parts;you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works;my soul knows it very well. 

My frame was not hidden from you,when I was being made in secret,intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 

Your eyes saw my unformed substance;in your book were written, every one of them,the days that were formed for me,when as yet there was none of them. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!

How vast is the sum of them! 

If I would count them, they are more than the sand.I awake, and I am still with you. 

Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!

O men of blood, depart from me! 

They speak against you with malicious intent;your enemies take your name in vain. 

Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?

And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? 

I hate them with complete hatred;I count them my enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart!

Try me and know my thoughts! 

And see if there be any grievous way in me,and lead me in the way everlasting!

Psalm 139

God didn’t just do that for David, He does it for each of us…lessons in faith, living, etc that build us day by day…there are so many time, I look back and see how some life event prepared the way for something else…or a faith lesson made the next trial a bit easier …line upon line, thought upon thought, moment by moment…we are in training….

Thank YOU…

The reminder…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q1yhpikV_Q

HOW GOD TRAINED DAVID TO BE AN EXTRAORDINARY KING

https://www.oneforisrael.org/bible-based-teaching-from-israel/god-trained-david-extraordinary-king/#:~:text=David%20had%20been%20anointed%20king%20at%20the%20tender%20age%20of%2017%2C%20but%20only%20sat%20on%20the%20throne%20at%20the%20age%20of%2030.