2 Samuel 5:1

2 Samuel 5:1 adds, Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.  All the tribes of Israel sent representatives to David in Hebron.  If we are fighting with our fellow followers of Christ, we need to pray that someone, if not we ourselves, will attempt to get together with those we have been fighting with and call for peace.  Being united as Christians is the best way to glorify God. They reminded David that they were all a part of the same family of God.  We may need to be reminded of that today as well, but I don't believe that David had ever forgotten it.  He had never initiated the battles but had actually done all he could to avoid them.  Verse two adds,  Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.  These leaders of Israel acknowledged that even when Saul was king, David had successfully led the fight against the enemies of Israel.   Instead of fighting, we should acknowledge the good that our fellow believers that we might be fighting with have done for God's kingdom.  Verse three continues, So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.  All the elders of Israel came together to David and made a league, or covenant, with him and anointed him as king of all of Israel.  Of course, God through Samuel had already done this long before now, but the people of Israel were finally catching up with God's will, we might say.  Too often, we run behind God's will because we are so caught up in our own plans that we may even attribute to God.   Just because we think we are doing what God wants, we had better be certain that we are not just following our own understanding instead of His.  Verse four states, David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.  David was no longer the youth who had killed Goliath but was now thirty years old, and he ruled as king of Israel for forty years.  We may be called early to a position of service in God's kingdom and not immediately respond to the call, but we need to pray that we will one day and the sooner we do the better.  I believe that some calls, like the call into the ministry or to preach is a lifelong call, no matter if we fall badly along the way.  Verse five adds, In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah. For seven and a half years David ruled at Hebron over just the house of Judah and then for thirty-three years he ruled over all of Israel at Jerusalem. Ruling over all of Israel was God's plan for David when he first anointed him king, but it took the people of Israel, and maybe even David himself, a long time to reach that point.  We need to follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit so that we do not waste time getting to where God wants us to be.