Identified With Outcasts?

“David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him. And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men” (I Sam. 22:1,2). So after David fled for his life from king Saul, he ended up hiding out in a cave, with a bunch of ‘rejects’ gathering together with him. Right? Well, what does the scripture say? “… they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth” (Heb. 11:37,38). If you want to be in the right camp, and on the winning side, my friend; you will have to like the idea of being with those who are cast out and with those who are undesirable to the mainstream. And I don’t just mean the mainstream of this world. David and all of those cast offs that gathered themselves together with him, were God’s people. And the people who cast them off were God’s people as well. Higher ups in fact. You think something has changed about that? Well, Jesus was born in a stable about a thousand years later, and the men he chose as apostles were unlearned, publicans, fishermen, zealots, etc. And if memory serves me correctly, he was rejected by the higher ups of God’s people too. No my friend, nothing has ever changed, only the names and the faces, as it has been said. I don’t know about you, but I count it the grandest of privileges to be in that company. Amen.

Original Post at By One Spirit Ministries Facebook page May 16, 2012

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