The you're going to do you do you do you do you do you do you do There's a moment in 1st Samuel where David has what seems like a perfect opportunity to kill King Saul and fulfill his destiny, but he waits. He displays

incredible faith in God. In contrast, today on Truth for Life we'll see how Saul's

lack of faith became evident when he passed up a life-altering moment of opportunity.

Alistairbegg is teaching from First Samuel, Samuel, Chapter 24. And so what happens is that David then arose in response to this circumstance in the balance of verse four

and he stealthily cut off a corner of Saul's robe and so it is a very significant thing here that David does as he does by cutting

off a corner of the robe. In light of that, how do we account for verse five?

And afterwards David's heart struck him because he had cut off a corner of Saul's robe. I mean our immediate reaction is to say well surely it's no big deal.

I mean he didn't do what the men said and we don't even know whether when he went

towards Saul he even had it in his mind to do.

What we do know is his reaction to it.

You see David knew that although the spirit of God had departed from Saul, he was still the Lord's

anointed King, and he knew that the anointed of the Lord should never be cursed or killed. And so his conscience is immediately burdened by what he done.

It's his conscience that gets him here. The man must have been mystified when he said to them, the

Lord forbid that I should do this to my Lord, the Lord's anointed. You see what he is actually doing is he is cutting off,

cutting off as it were symbolically the kingdom.

Conscience is a very important part of our lives, isn't it? In fact, there is a sense in which we could view this story in terms of a hardened seared conscience as found in Saul and a sensitive

conscience as found in David. Conscience the Bible, is a basic building block of our very humanity.

Why is it that even when you're a tiny boy or a girl and you reflect on your words or you reflect on your actions, you

attribute to them a moral evaluation."

Peterson paraphrasing a couple of verses in Romans too.

When we react in this way, we show that God's law is not something alien imposed on us from without, but woven into the very fabric of our creation. Something

deep within us that echoes God's yes and no his right and wrong. A guilty conscience is a heavy

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