1 Samuel 30:22-25

We reap the rewards of a battle we did not fight in Christ Jesus and this is the ultimate example of sharing what we did not earn....and do not deserve.

It is human nature to want to keep to ourselves anything that we have, in our opinion earned, but it is God’s way to share the blessings that He has provided you with all who are in need. We provide a service or product but we are dependent on others to need and buy the service or product that we are supplying. No one without the participation of others makes a living.  God’s ways are not man’s.

These men insisted that the spoil captured from the Amalekites should not be divided with the men who stayed at the Brook Besor with the supplies. David pointed out that the booty captured from the Amalekites was actually a gift from God, who had given them the victory. David’s band of warriors were one, although they had different strengths and abilities. They would share equally in the fruits of victory.

1 Samuel 30:22-25

²² Then all the wicked and worthless men of those who went with David answered and said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except for every man’s wife and children, that they may lead them away and depart.” 

²³ But David said, “My brethren, you shall not do so with what the Lord has given us, who has preserved us and delivered into our hand the troop that came against us. ²⁴ For who will heed you in this matter? But as his part is who goes down to the battle, so shall his part be who stays by the supplies; they shall share alike.” ²⁵ So it was, from that day forward; he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.