2 Samuel 15:19-37 (NRSV)
19Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why are you also coming with us? Go back, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile from your home. 20You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, while I go wherever I can? Go back, and take your kinsfolk with you; and may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you." 21 But Ittai answered the king, "As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether for death or for life, there also your servant will be." 22David said to Ittai, "Go then, march on." So Ittai the Gittite marched on, with all his men and all the little ones who were with him. 23The whole country wept aloud as all the people passed by; the king crossed the Wadi Kidron, and all the people moved on toward the wilderness.
How amazing this is that this 'foreigner' Ittai the Gittite's determination to follow God of Israel did pay off! I wonder what this is teaching us! If God allowed this faithful man to function where it looked virtual impossible to do so, what then is difficult in God's eyes? Let us be encouraged, God says: He delights in giving you the Kingdom!
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