6/26/2010 8:47:45 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My
Worship Time Focus: David’s absence
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 1Samuel 20:24-29
Message of the verse: “24 ¶
So David hid in the field; and when the new moon came, the king sat down
to eat food. 25 The king sat on his seat
as usual, the seat by the wall; then Jonathan rose up and Abner sat down by
Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty. 26
Nevertheless Saul did not speak anything that day, for he thought, ‘It
is an accident, he is not clean, surely he is not clean.’ 27 It came about the next day, the second day of
the new moon, that David’s place was empty; so Saul said to Jonathan his son, ‘Why
has the son of Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?’ 28 Jonathan then answered Saul, ‘David earnestly
asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem, 29
for he said, ’Please let me go, since our family has a sacrifice in the
city, and my brother has commanded me to attend. And now, if I have found favor
in your sight, please let me get away that I may see my brothers.’ For this
reason he has not come to the king’s table.’”
These verses are what took place
on the first two days of this event with tomorrows SD also about day two of
this event in the life of David, Jonathan, and Saul.
Saul
thought that David was unclean and that is why he did not come to this new moon
feast. David could have had sexual
relations with his wife or even touched a dead animal and would have been
unclean for that day, but when the second day came and he was not there Saul
asks Jonathan where “the son of Jesse” was.
This is a disdainful way of talking about David and shows that Saul was
upset with him not being there.
Notice
that Saul set up against the wall with Abner next to him, and this shows the
fear that he has, and the unsettledness in his heart.
Jonathan
then tells the lie that he and David had cooked up and even add a part about
evolving David’s brother, perhaps the one who was in Saul’s army. Jonathan could have stayed silent on this
issue and perhaps that would have been better, but he did what he did and sin
in the OT is always revealed so that the readers of the NT can learn from these
sins and not repeat them.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Whenever I tell a lie to anyone I am lying to
God and therefore taking God off my team because of the sin. It is better to tell the truth and not lie so
that I don’t lose fellowship and blessings from the Lord.
My
Steps of Faith for Today:
1.
Continue to
trust the Lord who is more powerful than my temptations so that I can overcome
my temptations.
6/26/2010 9:04:44 AM
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