“Now’s your opportunity!” David’s men whispered to him. “Today the LORD is telling you, ‘I will certainly put your enemy into your power, to do with as you wish.’”
It certainly seemed to David’s men that the message the Lord was sending through this circumstance was clear enough —‘Kill your enemy now while you can!’.
And yet this was not the Lord’s message at all. The Lord’s will is really not discerned through circumstances, which may be favorable or unfavorable, and are usually beyond our ability to correctly interpret anyway. Rather, the Lord’s will is discerned through prayerfully applying His principles to whatever the present circumstances happen to be.
