David said to Abigail, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me. May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.

 

We all know the story of David, Nabal and Abigail.

Abigail was a beautiful and intelligent woman with a humble heart. Her husband Nabal however was Surly and pompous.

 

 

1 Samuel 25:14-19

One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them. Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing. Night and day they were a wall around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them. Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.”

Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys. Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead; I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

 

In this occasion Abigail’s humility and intelligence had saved two men. Her husband Nabal from the slaughter of David and his army. Secondly , David was prevented from a massacre that could have haunted his conscience for the rest of his life and that merely because of his anger and inability to accept offense.

 

 

How are our hearts when we are offended? Do we always avenge ourselves? If we do where has that led us to?

 

David would have always been struck with a guilty conscience had that massacre happened. Thank God for Abigail’s humility that prevented David from committing it.

 

Our God will avenge us.

 

Let us Pray:-

God grant us a heart of humility like Abigail. To think of others their peace and protection.

Let us thank God in our prayer for his intervention in the form of a place or person that has prevented us from committing things that we would not be proud of.

 

2.     1 Samuel 25:36-37

When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak. Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone.

 

Nabal was a rich man and depended a lot on his materialistic possessions. He had plenty but was still reluctant to share.

When his wife told him what had happened. I wonder what made him have a heart attack. Was it out of sure amazement of his wife? I don’t think so. His love for money was so that on getting the news that his wife has given a huge chunk of her property away he was shocked and this resulted in a heart attack.

Medically it is proven that when you loose something you love there is activation of the sympathetic nervous system that could lead to adrenaline surge and palpitations which can lead a frail heart to fail. Nabal had downed himself in the love of materialistic possessions that a small loss led to this dramatic health event.

 

Nabal could not appreciate his true wealth—His Wife.

God help us recognise the true wealth in our lives. Help us recognise the true divine connections in our lives .

God gives us a sharing heart and not put faith on materialistic things.

God open our eyes that we may use the finances you have provided us in accordance to you will.

3. 

        2 Samuel 6:16

As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him in her heart.

 

          2 Samuel 6:20-21

When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!”

David said to Michal, “It was before the LORD, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the LORD.

 

 

2 Samuel 6:22

I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.”

 

 

David did not shy away when worshipped the Lord. He celebrated God’s goodness with all his heart. He did not care about his surroundings , he only had the Lord in his sight. His worship and prayers were from his heart.

 

Look into your heart. What is the nature of your worship? Is it a worship for others to see or is it a true communication to the Lord.

Are we ashamed to proclaim the Lord where ever and when ever required?

 

It is easy to praise the Lord among believer . Are we able to speak of his goodness and prise him among the people in our workplace? Or do we shy out? We are always provided with opportunity to share the Lord’s goodness in our lives. Let us make the best use of that opportunity by keeping a watchful eye.

 

Let us pray:

God Help us to be unrestricted in our worship to you at all times.

Help our hearts sync with yours Oh lord as we celebrate your goodness in our lives.

Help us make the cross bigger to whoever encounters us