In this chapter, Max points out that until David found refuge in the cave of Adullam he did not appear to be focused on God. When David finally slowed down enough to find time alone with God, he was able to regain his Heavenly focus. While in the cave of Adullam he wrote the 53rd Psalm. The first verse of is Psalm is the attitude we should all take when faced with giants.
1 Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me,
for in you I take refuge.
I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings
until the disaster has passed.
for in you I take refuge.
I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings
until the disaster has passed.
Why is it that so many times we forget to go to the caves first when problems arise? I know in my life I have spent many hours of needless worry and anxiety over problems that were either A) not issues I could control OR B) issues that resolved themselves with the passage of time. Yet I never went to my "cave" to be alone with God and let him be my refuge.
I can only imagine the relief and release David must have felt when he penned Psalm 53. Finally he admitted he could not slay his giants alone. God is the giant slayer.
Where is your cave? A spare bedroom converted into a study? A Greenway trail early in the morning? A tent pitched on the Buffalo River? It is only recently I have begun to value "cave" time with God. I need to arrange my daily planner so that I build in daily cave time and not just when a problem arises.
Woonderful insight(s) about cave time. Perhaps the hardest part about cave time is that it does not allow me to DO anything to solve the problem. (Notice that David says "I will take refuge until the disaster has passed," not "until I have solved my problems."
ReplyDeleteIt is not always clear just how to walk the line between what God expects me to do and what I can expect Him to do.
I guess more cave time would help me find and adhere to that line.