What you see, is what you get...
July 26, 2007
We are nearing the end of the journey though Saul's life. We move ahead several years, after David took on Goliath and won victory for the land. Saul needs to get rid of David but wants to make it look death in battle. Since David likes Saul's daughter, he tries to make a deal:
1Sa 18:24-27 KJV
(24) And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
(25) And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
(26) And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.
(27) Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
The plan backfired, at least for now. David went our and defeated the Philistines, twice as much as Saul wanted. So Saul was forced to give his daughter in marriage to David. But a seed had been planted in David. The idea that you can send your problem off to war in an imposable situation with the hopes of being killed. David did that with the wife of Uriah the Hittite many years later.
Our actions never are ones that appear in a bubble. Saul was the anointed of God and he was doing this, so David figures he can do the same when he gets anointed. What people see you do with your life affects things. If they are a Christian and see you do stuff you should not, they might think it is OK to do so. If they are not Christians, they may use it as an excuse not to become one. I am not saying that we should live perfectly sinless lives, only one person could do that. What I as saying is that we need to live our lives so that our actions not affect anyone in a negative way for God's kingdom. It is a tough job, but we can do it.
