📖 1 Sam 30:18 "David recovered all that had been taken... Nothing was missing" [1 Kings 4:27 "they supplied provisions for King Solomon... Nothing was missing"] Times without lack after hard battles make good leaders, simply times without lack make bad leaders #bookofsamuel🔥

📖 1 Sam 30:19–20 "Nothing was missing, whether small or great... David brought back all. David also captured all the flocks and herds, and the people... said, “This is David’s spoil.”" Going through difficulties is usually a rewarding experience #bookofsamuel🔥

📖 1 Sam 30:21–22 "David met those who had been too exhausted to follow him... the wicked men who were with him: “They didn't go with us; we won't give them any of the spoil” [David: yes we will]" Grace = rewarding not according to one's performance #christmas #bookofsamuel🔥

📖 1 Sam 30:22–23 "[those] who had gone with David said, “they didn't go with us, we won't give them any of the spoil... But David said, “You shall not do so, my brothers”" Separation into "us" and "them" within what should be true unity leads to ruthlessness #bookofsamuel🔥

📖 1 Sam 30:22–23 "”we won't give them any of the spoil that WE have RECOVERED.” But David said, “You shall not do so, my brothers, with what THE LORD has GIVEN us”" Seeing something as one's own achievement will make one stingy; seeing it as a gift - generous #bookofsamuel🔥

📖 1 Sam 30:26 "David sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders... “Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the Lord [not: "my enemies"]”" When motivated by righteousness and not by personal vendetta, generosity will be the outcome #bookofsamuel🔥

📖 1 Sam 31:4 "Saul took his own sword and fell upon it" See 13:22 "on the day of the battle there was no sword... in the hand of any of the people [except] Saul & Jonathan" What one thinks one is clinging to until the very end becomes one's very downfall #bookofsamuel🗡️

📖 1 Sam 31:4–5 "his armor-bearer... feared greatly. Saul took his sword & fell upon it. When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword & died with him" Don't expect helpers of bad leaders to turn into good leaders at the right moment #bookofsamuel🗡️

📖 1 Sam 31:11–13 "when they... heard what had been done to Saul, all the valiant men arose... & took [his] body... & buried it" [see 14:52 Saul exploited these "valient men"] Even when a leader is unchangeably bad, one should stay true to one's principles #bookofsamuel🗡️

Es ist 2024 mein X ist immer noch ein blauer Vogel 😊🐦 #twitter

Habe heute das Buch 1. Samuel abgeschlossen. Was für ein Opus magnum, der mich fast zwei Jahre lang täglich begleitet hat. Gottes Wort ist der Wahnsinn 📖 Werde mich jetzt dem Buch der Offenbarung widmen und mache 2024 eine längere Pause von täglichen Posts

true, so Gott will

📖 Offb 5,5 "Und einer von den Ältesten spricht zu mir: Weine nicht! Siehe, es hat überwunden der Löwe aus dem Stamm Juda, die Wurzel Davids" ➡️ Die Aufgabe eines guten Ältesten besteht darin, Trauernden mit dem Triumph Jesu Trost zu spenden 🦁🐑

"Disziplin bedeutet so zu tun, als ob man etwas liebt, um es irgendwann wirklich zu lieben." Ich in einem Tagebuch von 2019

📖 Offb 1,9f "Ich, Johannes, euer... Mitteilhaber an der Bedrängnis/Königtum/Ausharren in Jesus... um des Wortes Gottes & des Zeugnisses Jesu willen... Ich hörte eine Laute Stimme..." Gottes Offenbarung geschieht im Dienst und der völligen Hingabe für seine Königsherrschaft

Warum "einer", Herr Hoeneß? Da könnte man/frau glatt auf die Idee kommen, Sie wären homophob! Wann wird man sich wieder trauen, etwas zu sagen, ohne Angst zu haben, "da könnte einer auf die Idee kommen, dass ich in die Richtung ... denke"?

GIVEAWAY: I'm sending someone 3 books on the transfiguration. 1) My exegetical and theological reading 2) Patristic homilies on the transfiguration 3) Tim Chester's devotional on the transfiguration. (rb.gy/zophet) RT to enter.

Meanwhile the most famous person in the world is a Turkish shooter, #YusufDikeç at #Paris2024