10/25/2026
He arrived yesterday. He stayed anyway.
David is running for his life. His own son Absalom has taken the throne. On the way out of Jerusalem, David turns to Ittai, a Philistine from Gath, and tells him to go back. You are a foreigner and an exile, he says. You only arrived yesterday.
2 Samuel 15:21 (BSB): "But Ittai answered the king, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be!”"
Ittai had every excuse. Not his country, not his fight, and the king himself released him. He went anyway, with all his men and all their little ones. Three chapters later David trusts him with a third of the army. Loyalty that only shows up when things go well is not loyalty.
Think of the man in your life who is losing right now. His business, his marriage, his health. Call him this week and tell him plainly that you are with him. Then prove it by showing up.
Who stayed with you when you were losing?
Read it yourself: 2 Samuel 15:19-22
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