Damned if you do, damned if you don't...

Sometimes even with the best of intentions, it tough to know what to
do. What do you do in times like these? Consider this...
 
Saul fell on his sword, but didn't die. BUMMER! (This was an account
of a soldier desiring to be in David's favor.) Come here," Saul
said, "and put me out of my misery. I'm nearly dead already, but my
life hangs on."
 
"So I did what he asked—I killed him. I knew he wouldn't last much
longer anyway. I removed his royal headband and bracelet, and have
brought them to my master. Here they are."
 
In lament, David ripped his clothes to ribbons. (Likely at this point,
the young soldier realized he stepped into something really smelly).
All the men with him did the same. They wept and fasted the rest of
the day, grieving the death of Saul and his son Jonathan, and also the
army of God and the nation Israel, victims in a failed battle.
 
Then David spoke to the young soldier who had brought the report: "Who
are you, anyway?" The soldier said, "I'm from an immigrant family—an
Amalekite."
 
"Do you mean to say," said David, "that you weren't afraid to up and
kill God's anointed king?" Right then he ordered one of his soldiers,
"Strike him dead!" The soldier struck him, and he died.
 
OUCH!
 
Sometimes you do something for what seems all the right reasons, but
it just turns out bad. Why is that? It seems to me, when we make
decisions based on what we see with our eyes as opposed to seeing
what's in the heart, we are prone to make bad choices. The choice
seems right at the time, but death waits...
 
Survival Tip: Truth comes from God. Guaranteed! Circumstance can be
manipulated by the evil ones...
 
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