Today's reading from the One Year Chronological Reading Plan is 1 Samuel 20-21, Psalm 34.
Nicole got quite sick today and was unable to write the post. Get better soon Nic!
One thing that jumped out at me about today's passage was loyalty.
Jonathan was loyal to his father, King Saul.
Jonathan was loyal to his friend, David.
Jonathan was loyal to God.
Jonathan's loyalty to God was what gave him wisdom in dealing with his relationships with his father and his friend when the two conflicted with each other. Because he was loyal to God, he was able to do the right thing, to choose which earthly loyalty would "win".
What an amazing friend Jonathan was. He had the courage to stand up for his friend in front of his father - which resulted in his father throwing a spear at him! He was honest, he was faithful, he did what was right even when it was difficult, he relied on God. He was not jealous of David taking the kingship from him - he helped him!
I want to be that kind of friend!
I really like this Psalm as well. 2 of the verses are on the Seeds Family Worship cd's, which I love!
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. (v18) What a wonderful promise!!
Tomorrow's passage: 1 Samuel 22:1-2, Psalm 57, Psalm 142, 1 Chronicles 12:8-18, 1 Samuel 22:3-23, Psalm 52 and 1 Samuel 23:1-12
2 comments:
Feel better soon, Nicole! Jonathan was faithful to God and a loyal son and friend. I wonder what kind of a king he would have been, had Saul not lost God's favour and David been anointed the next king?
Isn't this amazing...
I've been pondering about children and how they turn out. I've been thinking about blogging about it soon because there is a lot going on in my head about it.
Here we have faithful Eli and faithful Samuel, wonderful godly men who have aweful, unfaithful children. Then we have Saul who has faithful Jonathan. We have everything in between that spectrum too in life. I've been pondering what the significance of that is. Maybe I'll think through it enough to blog it eventually.
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