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1 Samuel chapter 27, verse 7. And the number of days that David lived in the country of the

Philistines was a year and four months this is one of those places in the Bible where

time is not represented well by the amount of time it takes for us to read something.

Like I think about Genesis, the story of Joseph, and 12 years that he spends in prison.

And it takes like a couple of verses to go through those 12 years, just like the turn of a page. We don't really feel the weight

of 12 years of waiting in prison. And the same is true here. In 1 Samuel 27, 7, I read this,

and I hear that the number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

Here he is, like fleeing from Saul at many points, days afraid for his life.

And it wasn't just a day or a week or a month, but it was month after month after month for a year and four months.

And it just makes me think about my struggles with waiting.

And I'm guessing you have the same struggles.

Like we long for resolution to so many different things in our lives,

our families, work, the church, and the world,

and it's hard to wait for any amount of time, and particularly for a long amount of time.

And I just want to encourage you today, based on this verse in 1 Samuel 277 and specifically based on God's

faithfulness to David every single one of these days over the course of this year and four months

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