Due to David’s many mighty acts and the bequest he left, it is easily forgotten that for 12 or more years he lived as a fugitive and spent many hours of discouragement and disillusionment in the wasteland. He used to be a damaged, humbled man during those days as a fugitive. He learned much from those squashing years, but small good would come from his reliving the discomfort they brought into his life. How did he take the throne? Did he typhoon into the job and demand everybody to submit to his rule? No David was a delicate man.

He had learned the way to lead and the way to rally others around him in the defects of his yesterday.

Frequently we are better at handling affliction than we are at handling promotions.

As Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish essayist and historian, asserted, “But for one man who can stand wealth, there are 100 which will stand adversity.” But David was a person faced with success. If there was ever an opportunity for someone to take life by his very own 2 fists and demand a following, it was now. He revealed, actually “Begin your reign in Hebron.”. You may be in a scenario where you are curious, “God has opened the door, and I am about to stroll thru it. But is that what I should do?” Our bias is to race in when there’s some benefit which will come our way. Sometimes it’s best to start terribly noiselessly, to pace our first steps with great care.