Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

The devotional for today titled Is It a Sign?

Was written by Leslie Co.

The offer looked good and was exactly what Peter needed.

After being laid off, this sole

breadwinner of a young family had prayed desperately for a job. Surely this is God's

answer to your prayers, his friends suggested. Reading about the prospective employer, however,

Peter felt uneasy. The company invested in suspicious businesses and had been flagged for

corruption. In the end, Peter rejected the offer, though it was painful to do so. I believe God

wants me to do the right thing, he shared with me. I just have to trust he will provide for me.

Peter was reminded of the account of David meeting Saul in a cave.

It seemed like he was being given the perfect opportunity to kill the man hunting him down.

But David resisted.

The Lord forbid that I should do such a thing, for he is the anointed of the Lord, he reasoned in 1 Samuel 24.

David was careful to distinguish between his own interpretation of events and God's command

to obey his instruction and do the right thing.

Instead of always trying to look for signs in certain situations, let's look to God and his truth for

wisdom and guidance to discern what lies before us. He will help us do what's right in his eyes.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from 1 Samuel chapter 24, verses 1 through 7.

After Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, David is in the desert of Ingeti.

So Saul took 3,000 able young men from all Israel and set out to look for David and his men near the

crags of the wild goats. He came to the sheep pens along the way. A cave was there, and Saul went in

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