‘And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.’ And what happens? One of them knows about David, and David is found.
So David is going to be at court. For him, it will be a place of considerable danger. But there is a sense in which he is not in danger, because he has been anointed; he is the anointed of the Lord. We are left in this world, and our children sometimes are saved when they are young. You think, ‘How hazardous!’ They are in that unbelieving school or in this unbelieving situation. How precarious, how dangerous! But if they have the Lord in a place of danger, they are safe, because they are under the anointing of the Spirit, and the care and the protection of the Lord. It is the same with us, so why do we wallow and sorrow and worry and grieve?
You will have seen some remarkable providences in your life. However short your Christian life, you will have seen situations where God has shown you what he can do, to bring about a certain state of affairs for which you pray. This is just typical of the Lord. It is so typical of all the pages of the Bible, right through, and it is typical of the experience of Christians to this day, when God overrules in life for the purposes of his people.