Choosing Our Enemies

II Samuel 22:1 reads,"the Lord delivered [David] from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul."  Saul had made David his enemy.  David chose to not make Saul his enemy.  Like David, we have a choice who we make our enemies.  People can hurt us, disappoint us and even betray us cruelly but in the end it is our choice to make them our enemies.  In David's case, God used jealousy and the continual conniving of Saul to mold and make David into a man of God.  David was confronted with a number of opportunities to kill Saul as an enemy and be done with the mess but David would not raise his hand against Saul.  Why?  Because Saul was not David's enemy.  Saul knew this and it tormented him that David would not regard him as such.  Saul would have killed David in a heartbeat because of how he saw David.  When we determine in our hearts that someone is our enemy, it can pollute everything we see in their lives.  Everything they say and do comes out twisted and perverted in our minds because we have made them our enemy.  Saul wasn't David's enemy but David still needed to "be delivered" from Saul whose "hand was against him".  God did deliver David and God will deliver us from those who are against us without us having to make them our enemies.  Your calling and purpose from God should not be derailed because of someone making you their enemy.  Don't be sidetracked by feeling as if you need to make someone an enemy.  Let God's Hand of blessing remain on you while His Hand also deals with those who have made you an enemy without cause.