“God Will Keep His Promises”
“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 judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.”
Jennifer writes:
In the story of David, Nabal and Abigail, Nabal rejected David and paid him evil for his kindness, while Abigail with her God given wisdom reminded David of God’s promise that he would be king over Isreal and that the promise was far more important than the vengence David was seeking by his own hands. Through Abigail’s words David humbled himself and realized that she was right and left it in God’s hands.
I have recently gone thru a very similar situation and thank the Lord for reminding me that the promise He placed upon my life is far more important than the injustice I received. I have realized that I could never fight a spiritual battle with my flesh and that I HAVE to leave it in the hands of my Daddy!! (Not by might nor by power but by the SPIRIT says the Lord) I also realized what “obedience is better than sacrifice” really means, how humbling!!!
WE SERVE AN AWESOME GOD!!! I LOVE MY DADDY!!! :O)
Please note that the views expressed in this story are not necessarily the views of the American Bible Society. Story posted on August 20th, 2008 and filed under Praise, Bible, God's Love, Hope, Your Stories, Prayer, God's Sovereignty, Loving your enemies, Verses, Missions, Grace.
August 20th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Dear Jennifer:
Thank you for putting words into my mouth, that “the promise He placed upon my life is far more important than the injustice I received.”
As a ‘ching’ and female, one could expect me to be a good target for some ‘inferior’ outsiders of various races to look down to, and deride me to promote their own ego or for whatever reasons.
Under all these circumstances, however, I spontaneously sing with the Psalmist:
“Teach me knowledge and good judgment, for I believe in your commands” (Psalm 119:66).
“For through the grace given to me, I say to every man among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith” (Romans 12:3).
“Bless those who persecute you…” (Romans 12: 3);
“Never pay back evil for evil to anyone” (Romans 12:17); and
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:21).
For “God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because as He is, so also are we in this world” (1 John 4:16-17).
May I be your copycat, and say: “I LOVE MY DADDY!!!” too?
Thank you, and
May GOD ALL MIGHTY Bless you inestimably and infinitely;
GODSPEED, Always and Forevermore!
Mary Sun.