IN THE CAVE OF ADULLAM

I Samuel 21-22 In one of our Wednesday night classes, Wes Dav is is leading us in an excellent study of King David, “a man after God’s own heart.” (Acts 13:22) In these two chapters of I Samuel, King Saul is seeking to kill Dav id. He is pursuing him with a vengeance-and a small army. But David is alone. No man stands with him. He is fleeing for his very life. He is reduced to seek safety in the city of a pagan King! And even there he is threatened. He escapes and is alone, fearful, and exhausted then he comes to the Cave of
Adullam.

Have you ever been there? To the Cave of Adullam? A time when you felt alone and overwhelmed with what life has brought to you? When cares and worry seem so great that you do not know which way to turn? When relationships in the family or in the Family of God are becoming unraveled? When the constant question is “What must be the final outcome of this ordeal?” And in the midst of such a crisis-(and “crisis” is the
appropriate term for such a time in our life) who will again bring us the calm and peace of mind we so desperately need?

As David sit salone in the cave, his thoughts turn to God. Though others begin to gather around him, they are not his source of strength. David “casts his care upon the Lord.” (I Peter 5:7 ) Here in the cave he composes Psalm 57. “My heart is fixed, O God…I will praise you.” And in the calm and peace that trust in God will bring, David gives us his best thought: “Surely, Goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
—Hugh Price