WHEN SAUL MADE THE DECREE, “Put David to death” (1 Sam 19:1), David “fled and escaped” to his home (1 Sam 19:11-17), and then to Samuel (1 Sam 19:18-24) for refuge. And eventually, even the safest place that David could find – his best friend Jonathan – was no longer safe (1 Sam 20). David became desperate and his faith in God wavered. And he acted for self- preservation, relying on his human reasoning and effort through lying to Ahimelech the priest (1 Sam 21:1-9) and seeking asylum from an enemy, the Philistines (1 Sam 21:10). David discovered that it was unsafe to be with the Philistines and he sought to escape by acting insane (1 Sam 21:11-15). But despite David’s weakness and wavering faith, God spoke to him through the prophet Gad (1 Sam 22:5). This marked David’s reorientation from his disorientation in 1 Samuel 21. And now in 1 Samuel 23, for the first time, we read of David the fugitive “inquired of the LORD” (v.2). David was recovering from his wavering faith in God. It seems that David sought God now after God spoke to him through Gad. God is so gracious and faithful to us that He seeks us when we are weak and wavering in our faith. From this point on, we see a David who inquired of God whenever he was at a crossroads: before he became king (1 Sam 23:1-5; 30:1-8), in becoming king (2 Sam 2:1) and when he was king (2 Sam 5:17-19, 22-24).