Day two really stretches my mind. One of the things i so love about the WORD is that this is all for real, real flesh and blood people struggling to live for God. He gives us examples of people like David and Paul that we can so relate to and take comfort in knowing that they were not SuperHumans and God greatly loved them and used them. That being said we have to take the good with the bad and wrap our minds around the fact that Saul had 85 priests and their entire families slaughtered. Ugh.
What kind of person do you think this "Doeg the Edomite" was? Remember he was a shepherd not a warrior. Part of me wants to think maybe he was insecure and was desperate to somehow fit in? But then to think of someone who is insecure picking up a sword over & over & over... Was he greedy and just wanted on Saul's good side? Maybe he was just plain crazy. I know its hard to imagine what could have possibly going on in his head but its worth pondering to see if we can learn from him, like what not to do. The phrase keeps running through my head "If you don't teach your children to stand for something they will fall for anything." Is anyone tracking with me here? What do you think?
So how did our David respond to all this evil? I think when David wrote Psalm 52 he was pretty much reminding himself (you will come to see he does that a lot!) of truths he already knew.
1) He tattle-taled on Saul to God
2)He reminded himself that God would not let Saul go unpunished
3)He knew that God was & is still watching out for him
4)He reminded himself God is good
Good stuff. Do you think you would struggle with one of these things more than others? #1 is a bit of a challenge for me. David reminded himself that it was not his fault that all those people were killed it was all on Saul. The enemy would have loved for David to feel the weight of that on his shoulders, can you even imagine how that would slow us down?
Lots of good stuff in here!
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