David'S Love With Michal And Abigail (2)

- David's wife Abigail

“Samuel is dead” (1 Sam 25:1). The bright glory of Israel has disappeared, and David goes down to the wilderness. There, he met Abigail. Abbie means "father's joy". Her husband Nabal was surly and mean and refused David's help. Compared to her husband's ignorance, she is like a gleaming jewel in the dark. She showed very high level of wisdom to deal with a very dangerous and bursting family crisis.

Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran. (1 Samuel 25:1 NIV)

1. Abigail is easy to approach.

From the servant's population, Abigail learned that her husband took the rude action of insulting David who helped him before, and refused to receive David (1 Sam. 25:14-17). This servant was looking for Abigail because he knew that Abigail was a virtuous person and could make an wise decision to resolve the crisis. Abigail also knew that the consequences of rejecting David were unimaginable. She knew what God's will is, and saw what was going to happen in the future. She had a spiritual vision.

One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them. Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing. Night and day they were a wall around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them. Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.” (1 Samuel25:14-17 NIV)

2. Abigail is generous and helpful.

She is not like Nabal, she is prepared to help David generously and to give her possessions to David (1 Sam. 25:18, 35). For Nabal, his property is his own, but Abigail has accumulated her possessions and is ready to use it for God.

Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys. ...Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.” (1 Samuel 25:18,35 NIV)

3. Abigail is humble.

She knew where David was. As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them. When it comes to wild donkeys, God once said: “Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied its ropes? I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats as its habitat. It laughs at the commotion in the town; it does not hear a driver’s shout. (Job 39:5-7). Abigail not only found David in the right way, but also saw David with a correct attitude, that she saw him with a humble and respectful heart, and acknowledged that her family's sin (1 Sam 25:24-25).

She fell at his feet and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say. Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name—his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent. (1 Samuel 25:24-25 NIV)

4. Abigail believed in God's promise.

She saw David by faith, the one who was despised and rejected was chosen and built by God. No one is more like a king than a man who fled, but Abigail said with confidence: "The LORD will build a strong home for my Lord, and the LORD will give you the word of the promise of you, and make you king of Israel. When the Lord blessed my Lord, remember your niece (1 Sam 25:28, 30-31).

“Please forgive your servant’s presumption. The Lord your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the Lord ’s battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live. ...When the Lord has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler over Israel, my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the Lord your God has brought my lord success, remember your servant.” (1 Samuel 25:28,30-31 NIV)

5. Abigail abandoned the other and followed David.

After the death of Nabal, David sent a man to Abigail to ask Abigail (1 Sam 25:39). Abigail immediately accepted, and calmly left the wealthy and comfortable home, following the unresolved David in the wilderness. What a strong contrast between her and the pursuit of comfortable Mickey!

- Summary

The church is like a bride to marry to Christ, both Michal and Abigail love David, and they are David's wives. But their loves with David are two spiritual states.

Although Michal was merried to David on the outside, the Bible does not mean that she is the wife of David, but the daughter of Saul. The church, such as a bride, maries to Christ not to be a worldly daughter, but to be a bride of Christ with neatly decorated, spiritual shape and the beauty of heaven.

Christ came to his own place, but the world did not receive Christ or konw Christ, just as Nabel rejected Jesus. We will follow the example of Abigail, to receive Christ, to love Christ, and to belong to the spiritual from the world, to be blessed from the cursed. Although for the sake of Christ, left the everything and has experienced many difficulties, but this is a temporary pain to accomplish the eternal glory for us, and will surely reign with Christ forever and ever.

Mat 10:39. Whoever has life will lose his life. For my lost life, I will have life.