What drives you to serve?

Recognition, appreciation, a title on the door?

Most of us crave acknowledgement for our efforts.

We want our names known, our contributions celebrated, our dedication noticed.

But what if there's something far better than applause?

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall invites us into an ancient story

that exposes our hunger for recognition and offers a revolutionary alternative.

It's part of the teaching series called Fascinating Stories of Forgotten Lives.

In today's study, we'll discover that the most fulfilled people aren't those chasing the limelight.

It flows from something deeper.

Everybody knows David.

Around the world, his name is known.

He slew the giant.

He began to serve Saul, who was king, for a long time, like 12 or 13 years after David slew the giant.

And Saul hated David, and as a a result he tried to kill him.

David escaped for his life and for 12, 13 years lived like a fugitive. He lived in the wilderness.

He lived in caves. He lived in forests. He ate on the ground. He slept on rocks.

He had nothing of creature comforts and that's where he learned to king it. That's where David learned to recognize the unknowns. It happens to you when you're not a blue blood. When you come up from a background like that. These are people who are with David in the stronghold.

Matter of fact, verse 13, three of the 30 chief man went down and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of a Dullum. Ooh, that sounds spooky. I mean, there's a venture in the harvest time to the cave of a dullum. Ooh, that sounds spooky.

I mean, there's adventure in the cave of a dullum.

Okay, look back at 1st Samuel 22.

You look at me like, you don't believe that.

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