8/23/2010
8:37:55 AM
SPIRITUAL
DIARY
My Worship Time Focus:
Abner kills David’s nephew
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
2Samuel 2:18-24
Message
of the verses: “18 ¶ Now the three sons of Zeruiah were there,
Joab and Abishai and Asahel; and Asahel was as swift-footed as one of the
gazelles which is in the field. 19
Asahel pursued Abner and did not turn to the right or to the left from
following Abner. 20 Then Abner looked
behind him and said, "Is that you, Asahel?" And he answered, "It
is I." 21 So Abner said to him,
"Turn to your right or to your left, and take hold of one of the young men
for yourself, and take for yourself his spoil." But Asahel was not willing
to turn aside from following him. 22
Abner repeated again to Asahel, "Turn aside from following me. Why
should I strike you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your
brother Joab?" 23 However, he
refused to turn aside; therefore Abner struck him in the belly with the butt
end of the spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and
died on the spot. And it came about that all who came to the place where Asahel
had fallen and died, stood still. 24 But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner, and
when the sun was going down, they came to the hill of Ammah, which is in front
of Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.”
For all of the bad things that Abner
did as seen in the Scriptures this was something that he did not want to
do. He did not want to kill Asahel for
he knew that if he did kill him there would be a feud that would be going on
for a long time because Joab was the commander of David’s army and he was the
commander of the army of Israel and so this would go on until one of them was
dead. It turns out that Joab would slay
Abner in cold blooded murder because he had killed his brother even though
Abner did not want to kill him.
It is kind of hard to put the family
tree together for David as not all of the pieces seem to fit together, but Dr.
Wiersbe does show that Joab and Abishai and also Asahel were sons of a woman
called Zeruiah who was David’s sister or half sister. Asahel had a son who became a commander in
David’s army and had 24,000 men under him and this is mentioned in 1Chronicles
27:7.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I don’t
like to read about the death of Asahel when I am reading through the Bible and
now that I am studying it that too makes me sad to see this young man die. It seems to me that the physical strength of
men back in this time was more than it is today, for the Bible at times talks
about how fast these men could run and when reading about how many men the
soldiers of David had killed makes me think that they were much stronger and
faster than men of today.
It seems to me that there was much
unneeded bloodshed during these times and this still seems to go on today. Hatred is what starts these killings and the
Lord Jesus said that if one looks at a person with hate in his heart then he is
guilty in his heart of murder and this is something that I must not do for it
will take me down the wrong path in life.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
1. Trust the Lord to guide my path
today.
2. Trust the Lord to protect me with
his spiritual armor today.
3. Trust the Lord to continue to
teach me and for me to learn contentment.
4. Trust the Holy Spirit to search
my heart for unconfessed sin in my life.
5. Trust the Lord with my life today
as I give myself to Him for worship and service.
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