7/5/2010 9:07:31 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My
Worship Time Focus: The illegal trial
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 1Samuel 22:11-15
Message of the verses: “11
Then the king sent someone to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of
Ahitub, and all his father’s household, the priests who were in Nob; and all of
them came to the king. 12 Saul said,
"Listen now, son of Ahitub." And he answered, "Here I am, my lord."
13 Saul then said to him, "Why have
you and the son of Jesse conspired against me, in that you have given him bread
and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he would rise up against
me by lying in ambush as it is this day?" 14 Then Ahimelech answered the king and said,
"And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, even the king’s
son-in-law, who is captain over your guard, and is honored in your house?
15 "Did I just begin to inquire of
God for him today? Far be it from me! Do not let the king impute anything to
his servant or to any of the household of my father, for your servant knows
nothing at all of this whole affair.’”
I
suppose that this sub-title could have been called “the paranoiac king,” as
Saul was acting more and more paranoid all of the time. Since Nob was not far from Gibeah Saul sent
for the high priest and his family, but refused to call him by his given name
and called him the son of Ahitub, which means “good brother,” while his real
name Ahimelech means “brother of a king,” and perhaps that is why he did not
use his real name. Another reason was
certainly that of disrespect for the high priest as he suspected him of treason
against the kingdom.
Saul
would go on to charge Ahimelech of four different charges which none of them
were true, and eventually would have him killed because of Saul’s paranoiac
behavior. The charges were giving David
a sword, and feeding him, and inquiring of the Lord for David, and thus being
in a conspiracy to kill the king. Now Ahimelech
did give David bread, and a sword, but as far as inquiring of the Lord for him
that may not be true even though the way it is worded here in the text. The point Saul was trying to make was that he
did all of this because Ahimelech was working with David to kill Saul, and none
of that is true.
Ahimelech
defends himself in a proper and true way by saying that after all David was the
king’s son-on-law and was one of the king’s most trusted officers and would not
do something like this.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Ahimelech has something that was against him
and that was that he was related to Eli the high priest when Samuel was born,
who had two sons who were very sinful and so God promised that all of his
realities would die before their time.
With all of this said Ahimelech did not do anything wrong as he told the
truth to Saul and as he gave the food and sword to David. Jesus even spoke of this while He was on
earth telling the Pharisees that there was nothing wrong with Ahimelech given
the holy bread to David.
I
can see in this that it is important to tell the truth all of the time even if
it means that I could be punished because of it.
My
Steps of Faith for Today
1.
Continue to
trust the Lord in these trying times to conform me into the image of His Dear
Son.
7/5/2010 10:00:12 AM
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