David sits at the gate, straining to read a runner's gait from far off. "He is a good man, and…David sits at the gate, straining to read a runner's gait from far off. "He is a good man, and comes with good news." He wants Absalom alive so badly that he turns a running style into a promise. But Ahimaaz arrives with the word David cannot survive. Waiting hearts do this. We read hope into every sign. God does not always send the news we rehearsed, and He still sits with us in the gate.
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Why did Jesus say "it is finished" and not "it is over"?
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