1Sa 24:10, Look, this day your eyes have seen THAT THE LORD DELIVERED YOU TODAY INTO MY HAND IN THE CAVE, and someone urged me to kill you. But my eye spared you, and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand AGAINST MY LORD, FOR HE IS THE LORD’S ANOINTED.’
David could have taken Saul’s life because the throne was promised to David. YET, David will not get the throne by killing Saul but by waiting on the LORD! IN HIS TIME!
Psa 27:14, WAIT ON THE LORD; BE OF GOOD COURAGE, AND HE SHALL STRENGTHEN YOUR HEART; WAIT, I SAY, ON THE LORD!
1Sa 24:16-17, So it was, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And Saul Lifted Up His Voice And Wept. Then he said to David: “YOU ARE MORE RIGHTEOUS THAN I; FOR YOU HAVE REWARDED ME WITH GOOD, WHEREAS I HAVE REWARDED YOU WITH EVIL.
Saul has a change of heart or is it a brief emotional response? Yet in chapter 26 Saul goes out against David again (1Sam 26:1-3)
Isa 55:7, LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAY, AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAN HIS THOUGHTS; LET HIM RETURN TO THE LORD, AND HE WILL HAVE MERCY ON HIM; AND TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL ABUNDANTLY PARDON.
TRUE REPENTANCE IS ACTION BASED NOT AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE! Scripture says to Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside of the flock! (Col 4:5)!