6/20/2010 8:22:00 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My
Worship Time Focus: Jonathan’s intervention
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 1Samuel 19:1-10
Message of the verses: 1 ¶
Now Saul told Jonathan his son and all his servants to put David to
death. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David. 2 So Jonathan told
David saying, "Saul my father is seeking to put you to death. Now
therefore, please be on guard in the morning, and stay in a secret place and
hide yourself. 3 "I will go out and
stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak with my
father about you; if I find out anything, then I will tell you." 4 Then Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his
father and said to him, "Do not let the king sin against his servant
David, since he has not sinned against you, and since his deeds have been very
beneficial to you. 5 "For he took
his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a
great deliverance for all Israel; you saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you
sin against innocent blood by putting David to death without a cause?"
6 Saul listened to the voice of
Jonathan, and Saul vowed, "As the LORD lives, he shall not be put to
death." 7 Then Jonathan called
David, and Jonathan told him all these words. And Jonathan brought David to
Saul, and he was in his presence as formerly.
“ 8 ¶ When there was war again,
David went out and fought with the Philistines and defeated them with great
slaughter, so that they fled before him. 9
Now there was an evil spirit from the LORD on Saul as he was sitting in
his house with his spear in his hand, and David was playing the harp with his
hand. 10 Saul tried to pin David to the
wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, so that he
stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.”
Today’s
SD begins the second stage of opposition to David by Saul and Dr. Wiersbe has
entitled it “Saul looks for opportunities to have David killed.” Today I will look at the first ten verses of
chapter nineteen of 1Samuel which speaks of Jonathan interceding for David to
his father Saul who wants to kill David.
I
like this statement that comes from the pen of Warren Wiersbe about this
section of Scripture. “It’s remarkable
that such a magnificent son could belong to such a wicked father!” Of course he was writing about Jonathan and
his father Saul. Jonathan was the person
who could have been the next king but since he was a godly man and since he was
such a good friend to David and since he knew that the Lord had chosen David to
be the next king he told David that Saul wanted to kill him and to watch out
for him. This worked out for a while but
then the evil spirit came upon Saul again and he tries to kill David
again.
Dr.
Wiersbe writes that Satan was a liar and he was the one controlling Saul at
this time so that is why he broke his vow not to try and kill David. David realizes that it was time to get out of
town, but first he wanted to go and see his wife before he left.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I have been studying the book of Daniel since
this is the topic in our ABF at church and also because I have to teach one
Sunday from Daniel. The point is that
there are things that are similar in these two wonder OT saints lives. God is in control and He has put people
around both of them in order to work out His plan for them and actually for the
world, for out of the body of David and his descendants comes the Messiah and
from the pen of Daniel and from the life of Daniel comes the prophecies of the
coming Messiah and also all the way up to the 1000 year reign of the Messiah on
this earth. God put Jonathan into the
life of David and God put a host of people in the life of Daniel to work out
His plans.
I realize that I
am but a small cog in the wheel of God’s plans, but this I do know that He
loves me and will use me to accomplish whatever He wants to accomplish in my
life for His glory however small it may seem.
My
Steps of Faith for Today:
1.
Continue to trust the Lord to work out
the things in my life that He wants to and to accomplish whatever He wants to
from this life that He has given to me.
6/21/2010 8:17:53 AM
PS. This SD was worked on over two days.
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