Gifts and Talents

         After David had attacked Ziklag and had burned it and taken all of the people of it away, they came to their city and found that it was destroyed and burning, and all of their families and possessions were taken away. They wept until they could not weep anymore. They also wanted to kill David. David asked God if they should pursue the enemy, and God said yes. They recovered all of their possessions and their wives and children.

      We all go through trials and tribulations, and we lose so many things and our own abilities. Sometimes we lose the desire to go on with life. Everyone goes through things like David and many others, like Joseph, Moses, and Job. God lets us go through these trials and tribulations to see what we are made of. Do we keep Him first? Is He Lord over our lives? It is God who takes us through these things and restores us with more than we had before when we put our trust in Him.

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      New King James Version
1 Samuel 30:1 ¶ Now it happened, when David and his men came to Ziklag, on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the South and Ziklag, attacked Ziklag and burned it with fire,
2 and had taken captive the women and those who were there, from small to great; they did not kill anyone, but carried them away and went their way.
3 So David and his men came to the city, and there it was, burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive.
4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
5 And David's two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite, had been taken captive.
6 Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.

      New King James Version
1 Samuel 30:16 And when he had brought him down, there they were, spread out over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.
17 Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.
18 So David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives.