Sometimes you will appear crazy to avoid destruction and actually be delivered from the hand of the enemy. Sometimes you will appear crazy to take risk that no one else is willing to take. We get ourselves in situations that sometimes just don’t make sense. Why did we do this? Why did we do that? Why did David go into the enemies’ camp and almost get killed? David risked his life to go and get food for his men. Are you willing to go into the camp of the enemy to get what you need and for those you are called too?

1 sam 21 David went on his way and Jonathan returned to town.

David went to Nob, to Ahimelech the Priest. Ahimelech was alarmed as he went out to greet David: “What are you doing here all by yourself—and not a soul with you?”

Ahimelech thought David was crazy in other words.

2-3 David answered Ahimelech the Priest, “The king sent me on a mission and gave strict orders: ‘This is top secret—not a word of this to a soul.’ I’ve arranged to meet up with my men in a certain place. Now, what’s there here to eat? Do you have five loaves of bread? Give me whatever you can scrounge up!”

David was willing to do whatever it took, even if it made him appearing like he was crazy.

Are you willing to appear crazy to obey God and take risk others won’t?

Let’s flip the script and also see it another way. What King David did can also be seen as an act of self-sabotage because of a lack of wisdom because he left himself in a compromising situation because he had a need. He was hungry. He was in survival mode on the run actually from King Saul. Has your appetite ever brought you into a situation that made you compromise yourself?

The only way he was going to be delivered was to appear crazy? I always use my own testimony. I have done things that just didn’t make sense to someone in their right mind. Why would I go back in the enemies camp after being abandoned and violated and submit to destruction again. Two words-Self-sabotage.

Pastor Dharius Daniels said, when you increase self awareness, you decrease self-sabotage.

in 1 sam 21:12-15 When David realized that he had been recognized, he panicked, fearing the worst from Achish, king of Gath. So right there, while they were looking at him, he pretended to go crazy, pounding his head on the city gate and foaming at the mouth, spit dripping from his beard. Achish took one look at him and said to his servants, “Can’t you see he’s crazy? Why did you let him in here? Don’t you think I have enough crazy people to put up with as it is without adding another? Get him out of here!”

What has panic and fear made you do in a moment of anxiety? Have you ever appeared crazy to avoid destruction? David was willing to do whatever he had to, to avoid self-destruction. He had placed himself in a compromising situation. He was left vulnerable and the only way to escape was to pretend like he was crazy. He completely came out of character. God was merciful and protected King David in his vulnerable state and God wants you to know just like He delivered King David and me He is delivering you too.