From I Samuel 24-27:
1. David had a very sensitive conscience. Perhaps this is why he was a man after God's own heart. This can be evidenced by his being conscience-stricken after having cut off a piece of Saul's robe. I mean, Saul was trying to kill him, and yet he had a guilty conscience for cutting off a piece of the guy's robe!
2. David was also either very brave or fool-hearty. He followed Saul out of the cave and told him how he had spared his life. If Saul had wanted to, he had the power in his hands to strike him down right there. I guess that this shows David's extreme trust in God.
3. David, being the type of person he was, was very trustworthy. He promised Saul that he would not cut off his family. If I were Saul, I think that I would be very satisfied with a promise like that from a guy like that. Yet he decides later to chase him again.
4. Abigail was a very wise woman, and would have made a very good wife. However, I still wonder why David decided to marry other women also. The only explanation that I can really come up with is that it was an accepted norm back in those days. Either that or he thought if one was good, more than one must be great. (Of course this is not true, otherwise God would have created five or ten matches/wives for Adam in the garden of Eden and then said it was very good.)
5. Again in Chapter 26 David shows his bravery / foolhardy nature by sneaking right into the middle of Saul's camp at night. He really trusted God, I guess.
6. I guess I never noticed this detail before, but when David went to live among the Philistines, he went to plead on his behalf to the son of the king of Gath. All this time I thought that he was dealing directly with the king of Gath. I wonder, later in life when David was king of all Israel, how this played out when they warred against each other?
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