David! ... Part Two

We’re so attached to the identities, relationships and dreams that has brought us this far. The idea just like a cocoon; when the butterfly emerges, the cocoon has served its purpose; it doesn’t mean it falls “it means it has served its purpose”. Our dreams, our ambition, our relationships, our identities are often cocoons that leads us to the next and we get so understandably attached that we get in conflict when it breaks or falls away that we don’t see what it has opened us to.

That has nothing to do with the post.      (It made me feel good about some certain areas of my life, so I felt I should share)

So back to my man David...

DAVID WAS A MAN THAT YIELDED TO GOD’S WARNING;
Most Times When We Are About To Make Mistakes, God Convicts Us (That Tiny Voice In Our Heart) Sometimes We Listen, Other Times We Become Bull Headed.

1 Samuel 25:2-39
After David and his men had helped Nabal safe guard his sheeps and servant for several nights. David delegated some of his men to ask Nabal for a little food to survive on, Nabal hurled insults on them, thereby provoking David to the point of vowing to destroy him and his household but one of Nabal’s servant told Abigail (Nabal’s wife) about his surly attitude towards David. Abigail being intelligent lost no time. She took some food items and rushed to meet David... Verse 26; Abigail said to David “now since the LORD has kept you, my master (David) from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, as surely as the LORD lives and as you live, may your enemies and all who intend to harm my master be like Nabal. Verse 32-32; David said to Abigail, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me. May you be blessed for your good judgement and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.... Abigail went home and told Nabal all that had happen, he immediately had a stroke and died after 10ndays. David heard of this and said “Praise be to the LORD, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and brought Nabal’s wrong doing down on his own head.” Then David sent words to Abigail to become his wife. #sharpguy

DAVID WAS A JUST LEADER

1 Samuel 30:3-25
When David and his men came to Ziklag, they found their homes destroyed and their wives and kids abducted by vagabonds. David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him, each one was bitter in spirit because of their kids “but David found strength in the LORD his GOD”... Some of the men had low morale/exhausted to go for war, so David asked those men to stay behind; after God had given them victory, as David and his men approached, he greeted the 200men left behind but all the evil men and trouble makers among David followers said, “because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunders we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and go. “David replied, ‘No, my brothers, you must not do that with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and handed over to us the forces that came against us. Who will listen to what you say? The share of the man who stayed with the supplies is to be the same as that of him who went down to the battle. All will share alike. David made a statute and ordinance for Israel from that day to this day.

***Saul And His 3 Sons Died In Battle The Same Day (Saul Actually Fell On His Sword, Rather Than Being Humiliated By The Philistines) (1 Samuel 31:4-6)***

DAVID WAS A COMPASSIONATE KING

2 Samuel 2:3-6
David also took the men who were with him, each with his family and they settled in Hebron and its town. Then the men of Judah came to Hebron and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When David was told that it was the men of Jabesh Gilead who had buried Saul, he sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead to say to them, “the LORD bless you for showing this kindness to Saul your master by burying him. May the LORD now show you kindness and faithfulness, and I too will show you the same favour because you have done this.

DAVID ALWAYS EXONERATED HIMSELF FROM SINFUL ACTS

2 Samuel 1:2-14
A man arrived from Saul’s camp, with his clothes torn and with dust on his head. When he came to David , he fell to the ground to pay him honour; informing him of the death of Saul and his sons. So David asked him how he came about this information and he said “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and riders almost upon him. When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me, and I said, ‘what can I do?’ “he asked me, ‘what are you? “An Amalekite,’ I answered. Then he said to me, ‘stand over me and kill me! I am in the throes of death but I’m still alive.’ “so I stood over him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. And I took the crown that was in his head and the band on his arm and have brought them here to my lord.” Then David and his men tore their cloths, mourned and Fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan and the armies of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they have fallen by the sword. David didn’t take the news likely so he asked the boy “why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’S anointed?” then he called one of his men to strike the boy down! So he struck him down, and he died. (Logically this doesn’t make any sense to me but then I believe we should learn the contextual message this passage is trying to convey)

2 Samuel 3:27-29
When Abner (the captain of Saul’s army) returned to Hebron, Joab (the captain of David’s army) took him aside into the gateway, as though to speak with him privately. And there, to avenge the blood of his brother Asahel (who Abner killed out of self defencein a battle field), Joab stabbed him in the stomach, and he died. Later, when David heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner. May Joab’s  house never be without someone who has a running sore or leprosy or who leans on a crutch or who falls by the sword or who lacks food.

2 Samuel 4:8-12
Baanah and Recab who were leaders of Saul’s raiding band plotted and killed Saul’s son Ish-Bosheth as he was taking his noonday rest. So they stabbed him and cut off his head while he was lying on his bed in his bedroom. After which they travelled with the head to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, your enemy, who tried to take your life. This day the LORD has avenged my lord the king against Saul and his off spring.” David answered Recab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has delivered me out of all trouble, when a man told me, ‘Saul is dead,’ and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and put him to death in Ziklag. That was the reward I gave him for the news! How much more, when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed, should I not now demand his blood from your hand and rid the earth of you!” so David gave an order to his men, and they killed them. They cut off their hands and feet and hung the bodies by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-Bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb at Hebron.

David became more and more powerful because the LORD God Almighty was with him. (2 Samuel 5:10)