Bible Discussion Thread

2 Samuel 21: 1-9 Principle illustrated: David taking responsibility for Saul’s actions which shows David being a man after God’s own heart. There was a famine in the land Israel because Saul had killed the Gibeonites. David faced the Gibeonites for Saul to see if there was anything that he could do for them. They demanded that he deliver seven men of Saul’s sons to them because they had insisted that they should be destroyed. The Lord chose the men who He wanted David to send. David did not send Mephibosheth because of his oath with Jonathan not to destroy each other’s seed. The Gibeonites would hang them for what they had done. The consequences from wrong doing can be brutal. Seven men hanged because one man slew some people. As Christians everything that we do has an influence on people. I sometimes forget that people look up to me. What I think is “why me?” I am nobody special. I am just a sinner trying to live for God. I have learned that doing the right thing is what God wants us to do and if we do, it we will be set up for the blessings of God and not famine. I know that I get in the way of God’s showers of blessings that He want to rain upon me, but that is because I am human and make the mistake of handling things myself when God would be more than happy to take care of it for me. Being a man after God’s own heart is the way to true joy.