OUT OF THE FRYING PAN AND INTO THE SLOW COOKER (14)
Scripture: 1 Samuel 21, 1 Samuel 22
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Out of the Frying Pan and into the Slow Cooker (14)
Series: 1 Samuel
Robert Dawson
1 Samuel 21-22
Dr. Jeffrey Arthurs, in a sermon, shares this story. Several years back he was waiting on a street corner for his wife to pick him up for lunch. It was overcast at the time, so he had an umbrella with him. While he waited, he found himself practicing his golf swing using his umbrella as a club. When he looked up, he saw, what he called, a small group of admirers around him. (If I had been practicing a golf swing with an umbrella there would have been a small group of mockers gathered round).
As he contemplated his actions, the thought occurred to him that the activity or experience of waiting has a way of bringing out the inner person, like putting a teabag into scalding hot water. It releases what is inside.
He's right. Waiting, something most of us are not good at, has a way of revealing who we really are, especially when we are waiting on God. It exposes our flaws and reveals chinks in our armor in ways that sudden tragedies or hardships do not. The long simmer can be more difficult than being suddenly thrust into the hot boil.
- One thing is for sure, both methods are proficient at exposing what is within us.
- Sometimes what the heat draws out are things we didn't even realize were there.
David's life has been subjected to a sudden and intense boil, some tremendous heat.
- King Saul has grown envious, suspicious and fearful of David.
- Like his son Jonathan, Saul recognizes that David is the one God has chosen to be king in his place and unlike Jonathan, Saul hates the thought of it.
- Because of this, Saul determined David must go. He wants to put David to death.
Knowing his father's evil intentions, Jonathan, who had made a covenant with David, warns David. Out of fear David flees and will spend the next decade of his life on the run.
- We've all heard the saying ''Out of the frying pan and into the fire,'' but that is not what happe ...
Series: 1 Samuel
Robert Dawson
1 Samuel 21-22
Dr. Jeffrey Arthurs, in a sermon, shares this story. Several years back he was waiting on a street corner for his wife to pick him up for lunch. It was overcast at the time, so he had an umbrella with him. While he waited, he found himself practicing his golf swing using his umbrella as a club. When he looked up, he saw, what he called, a small group of admirers around him. (If I had been practicing a golf swing with an umbrella there would have been a small group of mockers gathered round).
As he contemplated his actions, the thought occurred to him that the activity or experience of waiting has a way of bringing out the inner person, like putting a teabag into scalding hot water. It releases what is inside.
He's right. Waiting, something most of us are not good at, has a way of revealing who we really are, especially when we are waiting on God. It exposes our flaws and reveals chinks in our armor in ways that sudden tragedies or hardships do not. The long simmer can be more difficult than being suddenly thrust into the hot boil.
- One thing is for sure, both methods are proficient at exposing what is within us.
- Sometimes what the heat draws out are things we didn't even realize were there.
David's life has been subjected to a sudden and intense boil, some tremendous heat.
- King Saul has grown envious, suspicious and fearful of David.
- Like his son Jonathan, Saul recognizes that David is the one God has chosen to be king in his place and unlike Jonathan, Saul hates the thought of it.
- Because of this, Saul determined David must go. He wants to put David to death.
Knowing his father's evil intentions, Jonathan, who had made a covenant with David, warns David. Out of fear David flees and will spend the next decade of his life on the run.
- We've all heard the saying ''Out of the frying pan and into the fire,'' but that is not what happe ...
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