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When David and his men were in Ein Gedi and Saul came into the very cave they were hiding in, David’s men wanted David to extract revenge and take Saul’s life.
David would not do it. He would not touch the Lord’s anointed, “My hand will not be against you,” David said, “though you lie in wait to take my life, my hand will not be against you.”
What an example of character and faith. Everyone there knew it, this was the action of a king. “Now I know,” Saul responded, “you surely will be king of Israel and the kingdom will surely be in your hand.”
1 Samuel 25 is a different story, however. Here, David loses his temper when he is insulted and reproached by a man who doesn’t recognize his stature. He is one step away from making the biggest mistake of his life.
That part is not good. Temper and anger have undone more than one man in history and David won’t be the last. David does become a champion in this story, however; not because of his anger, but because he listens to good sense and changes course. That is the action of a champion and that is the great lesson from the story.
There are three people at the center of this story. There is David who has been anointed to become the next king of Israel. At this moment Saul was still the king and his jealousy over David's success and his desperate attempts to hold onto the throne have caused David to be on the run.
Then there is Nabal. His name literally means, "fool." It's hard to imagine why his parents would actually give him this name. Perhaps it was like the boy named Sue in the famous song by Johnny Cash. A name like that would make him tough when he had to stand up to everyone who made fun of his name.
However he was given the name, the name stuck. He is a grouchy, cantankerous, difficult, and selfish man who lives out his name.
Then there is Abigail, Nabal’s wife. She was intelligent and beautiful in appearance. She becomes the heroine of the story because when her husband Nabal insults and reproaches David, and David loses his temper, she is the one who intervenes. The wisdom of Dear Abigail wins the day.
Abigail is respectful and wise as she shows David that if he allows his anger and temper to get the best of him, he will regret it the rest of his life.
David is a champion because he reins in his temper and listens to good sense. That is the action of a man of faith and a man of godly character.
I. Avoid the Fool Within
David was most certainly a gentleman when he requested supplies. He was not making demands. The fact that David sent 10 men suggested that David was hoping for something significant.
Nabal replies with an insulting, degrading, and disrespectful answer. In other words, in keeping with his name, he gives David a foolish answer.
David's response is no better. He was willing to withhold his hand from being against Saul because Saul was the Lord’s anointed. He trusted God to judge between them and to settle this account. But David knows he will be the king one day and Nabal has dishonored him.
It’s a life lesson. Everyone was born with the foolishness of pride and temper and anger within them. It's called, “the flesh.” It’s the fool within.
A. Emotions make terrible masters
David's young men report back to him with Nabal's foolish response, David loses his temper and tells his men to strap on their swords. David is about to take 400 men with which he has defeated powerful foreign invaders and bring all that power and might crashing down on Nabal and his few men.
David's emotions have gotten the better of him.
God gave us our emotions, they can be a beautiful part of relationships and relationship to God. But emotions are given to serve you, not to master you. There is an old saying, “emotions make great servants, but terrible masters.”
This is especially true of the emotions of temper and anger.
Proverbs 16:32, He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit, is better than he who captures a city.
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