Oh God, What Am I Doing Here

OH GOD, WHAT AM I DOING HERE (1st Samuel 31:1-5 )

Intro: Alone in the dark in the Cave

Back in my teenage years we would go exploring caves. One day five of us went cave exploring, we only had two flashlights but being young , we thought that was enough. We were deep inside the cave and I decided to climb up a shelf, while the others waited and held the lights for me to see. I was about thirty feet up the shelf when it began to slide, rocks were falling everywhere. My four companions with the two lights thought every man for himself and ran toward the entrance. Here I am thirty feet up a shelf in the dark with rocks falling everywhere. I soon began to think the worse, the thought came to me WHAT AM I DOING HERE. About twenty minutes later my comrades got their nerve up and came to check on me.

TEXT:1st Samuel 31:1-5

Meanwhile, the Philistines were fighting Israel at Mount Gilboa. Israel’s soldiers ran from the Philistines, and many of them were killed. 2 The Philistines closed in on Saul and his sons, and they killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua. 3 The fighting was fierce around Saul, and he was badly wounded by enemy arrows.

4 Saul told the soldier who carried his weapons, “Kill me with your sword! I don’t want those worthless Philistines to torture me and make fun.” But the soldier was afraid to kill him.

Saul then took out his own sword; he stuck the blade into his stomach, and fell on it. 5 When the soldier knew that Saul was dead, he killed himself in the same way.

1. King Saul

2. Prodigal

3. Lot

4. Elijah on the mountain

5. Ahab (Wounded)

6. King Saul

7. Me and You (walking away from God)