So what are we so afraid of? Is God any less victorious even if we aren't? I've been reading recently in 1 and 2 Samuel the accounts of King David. He experienced some pretty extreme highs and lows during the course of his life. For sure, his story is not an example of spiraling up toward God.
As you read the account, here's how it progresses: he goes from shepherd boy, to giant killer, to Israel's superstar, to running for his life from Saul, to becoming King, to fighting and killing everyone who wasn't an Israelite, to dancing naked, to killing Uriah and taking his wife, to losing his son, to uniting Israel, to running for his life from his son, to causing the deaths of 70,000 Israelites, to dying.
And this was a man who the Bible says "was after God's own heart".
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