2 Samuel 1

(July 4, 2014)

                My reading of this chapter indicates to me that the Amalekite wasn’t the actual killer of Saul, but rather thought that he would be rewarded for claiming to be.  David’s example here is instruction – our enemies will be destroyed in the own due time of the Lord, but there is no reason for us to either rejoice in that destruction nor to contribute to it.  David, justifiably, protected himself but beyond that he did not lash out at his enemies and he protected and worked to preserve his enemies.  Even the death of his enemy (and we see this again with Absalom, although there was a family relationship there) causes him a great deal of grief.

                David was a good man.  I know he has fallen from his Exaltation, but I hope that he was able to find some measure of peace in the hereafter.  What’s more, the fact that David was such a good man only gives me greater pause to know that vigilance is absolutely necessary at all times to keep from falling – no matter how well or poorly we feel we have been living our lives to that point.