God means to satisfy in us that which nothing and no one else can satisfy.
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Everything depends on the Word of the Lord in our lives.
Everything. On the Word of the Lord. In our lives.
1-2 Samuel ends by highlighting an essential, but easily-forgotten, character trait of God's great,
promised, King. The story is deliberately placed, and deliberately told, in order to focus the
faithful-reader's prayers on this: a King-shepherd who will lay his life down for his sheep.
John 10:11, "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."