Are you aware that God is protecting you? 1 Samuel 21-25

1 Samuel 23:14 (NASBStr)

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand.

When you are on the run and living in the hills and wilderness you think you are at the end of your rope.   You believe that everyone is out to get you.   You believe your life is in your own hands and only by your cunning and running are you alive.  Yet, in this is exactly where we find David and the writer gives us some great insight into his dilemma.    David may have been led to believe that his ability to escape Saul was due to his knowledge of the hill country and the wilderness (remember; he tended sheep most of his young life.  He would have know the wilderness and hills of Judah).   However, what he may not have realized is God's watching over his life.   Note the end of the above verse.   Even though Saul sought him every day the reason Saul didn't find David was due to God's sovereign watching over David's life.    God could have, at any time, delivered David into Saul's hands.   Saul tossed a spear at David on two occasions.  On both attempts he missed.  Why?   Because God didn't allow it.   God is watching over His children and He allows what He desires in their lives for His glory and they good.   As we are satisfied with God and His rule in our lives (direction, provision, interests) He is glorified by us.   Our chief end is to glorify God and the only way we can do that is to be satisfied by His intervention in our lives.  We may not even know He is protecting us.  We may think our great driving skill drove us through the storm.  Or, we may think our wise ability to save money gave us a raining day fund when the storm hit.   But, in truth, it was God's sovereign rule in our lives.   God is in complete control and watching over us.  If He doesn't want the Evil One or evil person to touch us, they won't.  If He has a plan and it calls for allowing evil to afflict us, we are to embrace God's control in that world.