Day 5: Honor the Lord’s Anointed What kind of application can we make of this passage in our lives today? The most obvious is we can grieve in proper ways, since that is what the passage is designed to teach. But I think there is an even greater application than that. The most striking thing [...]
Day 4: What to Grieve Do we really need David to teach us which things should make us sad? Yes! There are some things that ought to make us sad that don’t – just as there are things that ought to make us happy and don’t. And we need training from God’s Word to correct [...]
Day 3: How to Grieve David taught Judah how to grieve for Saul by means of a lament. I find that absolutely fascinating. You might think if anything is a personal matter it would be how you grieve or don’t grieve when someone dies. But that is not the case. There was an appropriate way [...]
Day 2: Grieving is appropriate David is weeping and mourning and fasting and crying and grieving – how does all that square with James 1:2 – Consider it pure joy whenever you face trials of many kinds? Romans 5:3 we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance If we are [...]
Day 1 – God Honors His own Work What is left of the headless, bloody body of Saul is hanging from the wall of Beth-Shan at the crossroads for all the travelers through Israel to see. 1 Samuel 31:11 When the people of Jabesh Gilead heard of what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12 [...]
Day 5 It is interesting to me to note how often Scripture records deaths – not just the fact that someone died, but a description of how they died. And when I say “how they died” I don’t mean so much the cause of death, but rather how well or how poorly they died. There [...]
Day 4 1 Samuel 31:7 When the Israelites along the valley and those across the Jordan saw that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and fled. When all the people see that the Israelite army has been defeated, they decide they would rather be [...]
Day 3 Imagine the end of your life ending up like Saul’s – especially anyone who is holding on to some sin, big or small. Rebellion against God begins with small things. It starts with preferring some intense physical pleasure or temporal treasure over nearness to God. But Ecclesiastes 7:26 says that when you come [...]
Day 2 When I read the story of Saul in his final moments, I just want to say to him, “Saul – turn to the Lord! You’re about to die – just repent and cry out for mercy.” Why doesn’t he turn to the Lord? Decades earlier, when God told Saul to wait but Saul [...]
Day 1 At the beginning of chapter 31 we read some of the most painful words in the whole book: 1 Samuel 31:2…and they killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab and Malki-Shua. Every time I read that I think, No – not Jonathan! Why should Jonathan have to die? Abner survives, why not Jonathan? Jonathan had [...]
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