Thursday, January 2, 2014

King Saul's Anger (1 Samuel 22:6-10)

7/4/2010 7:43:28 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                                                      Focus:  The king’s anger

Bible Reading & Meditation                                     Reference:  1Samuel 22:6-10

            Message of the verses:  “6 ¶  Then Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been discovered. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him. 7  Saul said to his servants who stood around him, "Hear now, O Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse also give to all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds? 8  "For all of you have conspired against me so that there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in ambush, as it is this day." 9  Then Doeg the Edomite, who was standing by the servants of Saul, said, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 10  ‘He inquired of the LORD for him, gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.’”

            This SD begins the fourth point in Warren Wiersbe’s commentary 1Samuel in this chapter of his book.  He entitles this forth point “Doeg:  a deceitful servant and it covers 22:6-23 of 1Samuel.  Doeg is the fourth person whom is seen in this chapter of his commentary, and all four characters involve drama.
            The scene begins with Saul ranting and raving about how his officers and his son Jonathan are plotting against him and as he begins to shout at these men and one of them, Doeg, begins to tell Saul exactly what he saw while David was at the priests home where the ephod was.  Doeg seems to be telling the truth to Saul with the possible exception of saying that the priest had found out from the Lord what David was suppose to do and where he was to go.  I suppose that this made Saul happy for a while, but what Doeg did was wrong for God had anointed David to be king in Israel and so Doeg was actually going against the rightful king of Israel.  David writes the 52nd Psalm about this incident.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  Nobody likes a snitch, and in I suppose that in the case of Doeg and Saul people really disliked them for this event because many priests were killed because of it.
            I think in this case even though Doeg was telling mostly the truth that it would have been better if he would have just kept quiet, and keeping quiet is something that I need to practice more than I do, and this is the spiritual meaning for my life today from this section of Scripture.

My Steps of Faith for Today:

1.       “A man of understanding keeps silent.”  This is from Proverbs 11:10b.


7/4/2010 8:16:56 AM
           
           



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