1 Samuel
19:11-24
I know the plans I have for you,
that is the heart of many parents for their children, but if those are not
God’s plans then there is a high probability your ideas are in contrast to
God’s plan for your child. But King Saul also had plans for David; they
were not the kind most father-in-laws would have for their son-in-law. He
did not kill David but he tried to, and this is after giving his oath in the
name of God to Jonathan. This was his oath; “As
the LORD lives, he shall not be put to death.”
Now Saul has told all in the house
of David to watch him for the next morning Saul is going to kill him. But
the King forgot the power of love, love overcomes fear, it puts the other
person first, and that is what Michal, David’s wife did. She told David
you must leave tonight, and she lowered him with a rope out of the window and
he ran. But when one grows up in the house of a deceiver they pick up
many of the dad or mother’s habits and “Michal took
an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats hair at its head and
covered it with the clothes. And when Saul sent
messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.” Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him
up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.” And
when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow
of goats' hair at its head. Saul said to Michal,
“Why have you deceived me thus and let my enemy go so that he has escaped?” And
Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go. Why should I kill you?’”
(1 Samuel 19:13-17) It sure looks like she is dad’s girl; she got
the lies and deception down very well.
If you are
David where are you going? That is a
good question, but look at what David did, he went to Samuel at Ramah and told
him all that Saul had done to him. Picking up the story in verse 18b-24, “And it was told Saul, “Behold, David is at Naioth in
Ramah.” Then Saul sent messengers to take
David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel
standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul,
and they also prophesied. When it was told Saul,
he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers
again the third time, and they also prophesied. Then
he himself went to Ramah and came to the great well that is in Secu. And he
asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” And one said, “Behold, they are at Naioth
in Ramah.” And he went there to Naioth in Ramah.
And the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went, he prophesied until
he came to Naioth in Ramah. And he too stripped
off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day
and all that night. Thus it is said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
It looks as
if God planned to put Saul’s plan for David on hold, and how about Saul the
King of Israel laying naked all that day and all that night before God’s
prophet Samuel? There is a lot to learn
if we have ears to hear and eyes to see what the Spirit of God is teaching us!
From the Back
Porch,
Bob Rice
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