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I’ve always
found this conflict between Saul and David interesting. Saul seems bent on destroying David. David seems bent on not destroying Saul. Time and time again Saul pursues David to
kill him. Time and time again David
finds himself in apposition to kill Saul and he lets him live. This is a great study in contrasts.
What makes
this story even more great is that we need to consider why it is that Saul
desires to kill David. He desires to
kill David because he is jealous. He wants
to kill David because David is God’s elect and that means that Saul’s son won’t
ascend to the throne. He wants David
dead because he is king and he is used to following his own compulsion.
On the other
hand, look at David. We are told again
and again that David is a man after God’s own heart. What is so special about David, especially
since he seems so prone to sin? What
makes David special is his understanding that God’s ways are different than the
ways of mankind. How many times does
David’s own soldiers try to convince him to take the life of Saul? How many times does David refute them and allow
vengeance to be in God’s hands? In this
regard – in fact, in almost all scenarios except those that involve wives –
David is incredibly gifted at looking beyond what the world would expect and
instead look to what God would call him to do.
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