The When some kind of potential disaster is averted, some people attribute it to luck or coincidence,

but those are not terms we find in the Bible.

Today on Truth for Life, as we follow David's continuing saga,

we'll see some ordinary people and some seemingly disconnected events through the lens of God's sovereign care.

Alister Begg is teaching from the opening verses of First Samuel,

Chapter 25. Well, the life of David as we've been following it in these weeks, in these variety of circumstances as he has moved essentially

from wilderness to wilderness, may appear from our perspective to simply be a series of

unconnected, disconnected events.

But in actual fact, what we're discovering

and what comes across clearly in this chapter, in the entire chapter, is the fact that like all of God's

children, David is being schooled in the work of God in terms of Providence and that even though he is

on the receiving end of all this opposition he is actually safe in God's care. And we are discovering that God is always at work

in a variety of circumstances and that God is always at work in a variety of lives.

Let's try and make our way through these verses by considering first of all the context and the cast of characters.

The chapter begins by telling us that Samuel has died

and that David has moved on. He went down to the wilderness of Parran. Now I think it is impossible for us to mistake

or to fail to be struck by the fact that the

obituary here that were given of Samuel is incredibly brief.

He was a prophet, he was a priest of God, he was a judge of the people, he was an anointer of kings. In his old

age he actually accomplished more than he accomplished in his earlier years.

And he has taken himself to his home in Rama.

David has been to visit him there we saw,

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