1548) I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am too quick to make assumptions and even quicker, believing them as fact. I assume I know what my husband is thinking. I assume my friends know what I am struggling with. I assume I know what the driver in front of me is going to do. All of these assumptions can bring dire consequences.

There is another assumption I sometimes make, and it involves the people of the Bible. I realized this when I read 2 Samuel 22:7 and didn’t give it much thought. In this verse, David “cries out to God” and then he states, “and God heard me.”

When I read this crying and hearing, I kind of discount it; after all, many people in the Bible had direct dealings with God or Jesus. They heard his voice or experienced a miracle so I can assume David was confident God heard his cries as stated in verse 7. This assumption is not accurate, however, and when I stopped to meditate on this verse, I realized David never heard God speak directly to him nor did he see Elijah-type miracles, either.

What does this realization reveal? David was convinced when he prayed to God, God always heard him. He knows this through looking at God’s faithfulness throughout his family’s lives, his own, and his belief that God would continue to hear him. THIS is called faith and David had to have just as much of it as we do today–if not more–because David was often amid war, a time he could lose his life in multiple ways.

If David can have faith through his circumstances, so can we. We have his example of crying out to God and God responding to help encourage us to nurture our faith that we have the same God as David did.