Do what?

I was preaching a funeral this week when in studying I ran across a particular section of scripture. It is in 2 Samual chapter 15. Let me set the stage for you, Absolom has taken the kingship from his father and David is fleeing in an attempt to save his household. Absalom has taken the city and as David is leading his family and those men loyal to him out of the city. As they leave David holds back to make sure everyone is making it out OK when something strange happens. Ittai a Gittite is in among David's followers. David asks Ittai what he was doing? You see Ittai just showed up in Jerusalem the day before. No one knows who he is, he just arrived and yet he is leaving with the deposed King? Crazy huh? Well David thought so too. He tells Ittai to go back and serve Absolom as David does not know where he will go, wether they will be overtaken and killed by Absolom, or even if they will have enough provision for everyone. David says go back because that is the rational choice. Ittai says he will stay with David through life or even death, that wherever David goes he will go as well even though it is as Spock would say, Irrationtional...
Following GOD is a lot like that. We really don't know what the future holds. We may think we do but how many times does it really work out the way we think it should? We don't know what will really happen tomorrow. I have never got ready to leave for work and saw I had a flat tire adn thought, well I knew this morning I would have a flat! It is always a surprise.
So back to Ittai, how did it work out for him? Well he followed David in chapter 15. In chapter 18 it tells that David split the country into thirds and gave three men rule over each third. Yeah, you guessed it, one of the guys was Ittai, the crazy dude that followed when following was not rational. Who pledged his loyalty when pledging loyalty was not rational, who became a ruler even though he just got to town yesterday...