1 Sam. 18:6-9
6 As they were coming home, when David returned from killing the Philistine, the women came out of all the towns of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments. 7And the women sang to one another as they made merry,
‘Saul has killed his thousands,
and David his tens of thousands.’
8Saul was very angry, for this saying displeased him. He said, ‘They have ascribed to David tens of thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands; what more can he have but the kingdom?’ 9So Saul eyed David from that day on.
BLOG DISCUSSION QUESTION: "So Saul eyed David from that day on.".....jealousy really does change the way we look at things.
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6 comments:
One of my books called David the arrogant soldier because of him bringing back the head of Goliath to the troops. "See what I've done!" But, with the women chanting the song, ...at least David isn't chanting it.
Jealousy is probably harder to deal with than pure hatred. Children are so engrained in it at such an early age.."My daddy is bigger than yours"....We all need a lesson in humility and acceptance. As Matt Davis used to sing, "It's Hard to Be Humble, When You'e So Good Looking"...(I'm not sure if that is the correct ending.) Of course, we all think of Mother Teresa as the perfect human example of humility....but we have such people all around us, don't we? Thanks be to God!
Praise had such a good comment about yesterdays issue about Jonathan and David friendship. Praise also has a great comment today. Friendship between Jonathan and David was more than an earthly relationship. I believe it was a foresight into our heavenly relationships, a heavenly glimpse.
The comment Praise said yesterday about Jonathan and David was very good. Todays Parise comment is also good. Friendship between Jonathan and David was more than an earthly relationship. I believe it was a foresight into our heavenly relationships, a heavenly glimpse.
Sorry about leaving 2 comments. I thought the first one didnt publish.
Jealousy indeed changes not only how one sees others, but how one acts as well. This was apparent in Saul's feelings and actions toward David. David however, was a man who had hard times thanks to those thoughts and actions but he continued to have faith. The Bible addresses what can happen with trusting God is in control when there are thoughts like Saul had against David. Roman 5:3 “ But we also rejoice in our suffering, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us . . .” maybe David had some insight here?
Thanks for the comments.....I took a course in college called "Sensation and Perception". It was a psychology course, but it was all about the eye...the physiolgy of how the eye works...cones, rods, reverse images....the reason that there was a psychology class on the eye is that our brains work with the information that they receive, and the eye is one of the information gatherers. An interesting fact that I remember is that one's eye lense gets harder and turns yellow as one gets older, taking things out of focus and tinting them. It seems to me that jealosy does the same thing. It takes things out of focus and tints them. But put on glasses, and the focus returns and the tint can be taken out....mmmmmm....sounds like we could all use some "Son glasses" to help us with our jealous eyesight.
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