Hachilah

In I Samuel 26, Saul encamped on the hill of Hachilah as he searched and ran after David to kill him. Yet Jehovah would not deliver David at all, instead He delivered Saul to David, and David had the opportunity to kill Saul, if he wanted to. Even his servant advised him to kill Saul, but David, a man after God's heart, honor God's sovereignty and  would not lay his hand against the Lord's anointed.

26:8   And Abishai said to David, God has delivered your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore let me strike him with the spear even to the ground with one stroke, and I will not do it twice.26:9   But David said to Abishai, Do not destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Jehovah’s anointed and be guiltless?
26:11  Jehovah forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Jehovah’s anointed. 

This portion of the word touched my being so deeply. Here I could see he heart of God in David. How he honored the Lord's anointed even though the "anointed" had totally backslidden. He left the matter of revenge to the Lord.

26:10  And David said, As Jehovah lives, Jehovah will strike him down, or his day will come to die, or he will go down in battle and perish.

Actually, David was also anointed by God through Samuel already, but until the proper time for him to be enthroned as the king of Israel he would not prematurely or forcibly fight for the kingdom. He left the matter to the Lord.

Similarly, there are, and there will be many instances of the like in our Christian life today. But the divine principle is never to fight for one's right and to never take revenge, for whatsoever reason. At the right time the Lord will do His work. Until that time, we must humbly and simply submit ourselves to the Lord at all cost. This is a very deep spiritual lesson.

This is the lesson learned at "Hachilah," the lesson of accepting the Lord's sovereignty, and never to act by the natural man but leave everything to God who is in control.

Lord, may I learn this lesson thoroughly well.