Strength in God

So while reading 1 Samuel I can to the point where the future King David was being basically chased by Saul. Now get a little bit of perspective on this. Saul was a mighty warrior, the first ever king of Israel, people loved him and looked up to him. Then he screwed up, so God decided that he would no longer be the king of God's people but that someone new would be. God chose David and of course you know the David and Goliath story...same David. So the people began to brag about David and pretty much thought he was amazing. So Saul got jealous and started chasing him to kill him because he didn't like the idea that the next king would not be from his direct family. Well as much as Saul hated David, his own son Jonathan absolutely loved David. He knew that David would be the next king and he was a Godly man himself.
Well anyways, to get to what this is really about, just imagine having to live with all this, knowing that a well known and loved man is trying very hard to kill you. You would probably get down on yourself. But listen to what happened:

"And Saul's son Jonathan went to David at Horesh and HELPED HIM FIND STRENGTH IN GOD." (1 Samuel 23:16)

The whole time I was reading all this stuff before thinking David is really a man consumed by God. He just seems like the perfect Christian. But then I read this and think, whoa, he wasn't perfect, he was losing strength in God. But hey, duh!! Only Jesus was perfect and had that kind of faith. It's crazy that we think of these "heros" in the Bible as being the perfect people, but you see that they all mess up some how. David loses faith and Moses did too. So if we think how easy it is for those who have had such close relationships with God to lose faith, think how much easier it is for those of us to lose faith. Scary huh? I think so. But what is awesome about it is that God placed someone in David's life to help him find that strength when he was losing it. This shows the importance of our christian relationships. We have to be accountable for one another and watch out for one another.

"Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds."
-Hebrews 10:24

So what I took away from this passage is that we all screw up. It's what we do, but by having those friends and that support to help lift us up, we can make it through the hard times. We just have to encourage one another in our faith.