1 Sam. 19:8-17
8 Again there was war, and David went out to fight the Philistines. He launched a heavy attack on them, so that they fled before him. 9Then an evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand, while David was playing music. 10Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night.
11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to keep watch over him, planning to kill him in the morning. David’s wife Michal told him, ‘If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.’ 12So Michal let David down through the window; he fled away and escaped. 13Michal took an idol and laid it on the bed; she put a net of goats’ hair on its head, and covered it with the clothes. 14When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, ‘He is sick.’ 15Then Saul sent the messengers to see David for themselves. He said, ‘Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.’ 16When the messengers came in, the idol was in the bed, with the covering of goats’ hair on its head. 17Saul said to Michal, ‘Why have you deceived me like this, and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?’ Michal answered Saul, ‘He said to me, “Let me go; why should I kill you?” ’
BLOG DISCUSSION QUESTION: What made David Saul's enemy...wasn't he his son-in-law?
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There are plenty of son-in-laws out there that parents are not very enamored with. Now me, I have great ones! :)
We wives are quite "original" in protecting our husbands! Michal must've had lots of "imaginative creativity" to come up with such a plot!!!!! Even insisting on David climbing out of the window! We all need "Old-Testament vision" to truly appreciate all these details, right?
We need our bloggers' insights! We learn from each other! David offers us a full gamet of emotions, doesn't he?
Sauls trickery backfires when he thought odds against David was going to be greater because of him being Sauls son in law.It didnt make any difference. Michals love shone bright. Sauls influence to his daughter was strong. Where did she store her idol?
David was Saul's enemy because Saul lived under the supposition of scarcity. He believed that any glory David achieved subtracted from the glory he held. In other words, there was only so much glory to be had. Of course there are things of which there is only so much to be had....land, water, time...but when it comes to glory...or importance...there is no scarcity. There is abundance.
Jesus knew this. He "emptied" himself, but his emptying did not diminish his glory.
This is an important thing for us to learn, too, for when we live under the supposition of scarcity, we set ourselves up to respond just as Saul did; with violence and mindlessness.
When the disciples were arguing as to who was the best, Jesus told them that that is the argument that those who do not know of God's love have. But we, who are abundantly loved as children of God, are of equal value and worth....what could make us any more worthy than to be a child of God, and what could make us any less worthy if we are a child of God?
Something to think about in this world that thrives on competition rather than cooperation.
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