Every experience we have is to prepare us for the next. Every experience is to help us to face a similar experience in the future, perhaps, a more difficult one. I think of my years as a pastor in Singapore, and all the different people I had to work with. I worked with some really difficult people. Now I know.
Perception is so important in facing a diffcult situation.
Eliab's perception was wrong. Saul's perception was wrong. David's perception was right. We need to look at it from past experience. Perception is the first step.