God has a measure/portion just for you, seek Him for it!
In 1 Samuel 25 we read the account of David, Abigail (relates to Joy) and Nabal. David had protected Nabal’s men and flocks in the wilderness but when he sent his young men to Nabal for a gift at shearing time they were rebuffed, by the surly Nabal. Nabal was a wealthy man, he had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep. A gift to David’s men would have meant little to him, but he chose to confront and belittle David’s men in front of his shearers and servants.
One of the servants told Abigail what Nabal had done and that ‘disaster was hanging over our master and his whole household’. 1 Samuel 25:17
In a previous blog (Naaman’s trip to Elisha) we noted how the Bible sometimes lists very specific amounts of goods used in certain situations.
Abigail lost no time. She took 200 loaves of bread, 2 skins of wine, 5 dressed sheep, 5 seahs of roasted grain, 100 cakes of raisins and 200 cakes of pressed figs and loaded them on donkeys. Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead; I’ll follow you”. But she did not tell her husband Nabal. 1 Samuel 25:18, 19
Abigail realised the danger and started at once to try and redeem the situation. She met David and his men in the ravine coming towards her. I’ve also written before about, the Lord bringing us into a ‘ravine’, a tight place with no way around. God deals with us or confronts us in the ravine. Don’t be surprised if we find ourselves in such a place when God is dealing with us.
This meeting was God’s way of preventing David from taking revenge and blood guilt. Abigail was able to stop David from murdering Nabal and his household. She also gave the gift she’d brought to him and his men and repeatedly humbled herself before them. The gift was very precise and I BELIEVE IT WAS THE EXACT AMOUNT GOD HAD DETERMINED DAVID SHOULD HAVE!
God is not unjust, He knows when we’ve helped others and done something for Him. God remembered Cornelius for his prayers and giving to the poor in Israel. It may well be that God, who is a generous God, wants to reward some of you His faithful ones, just as He rewarded David. He knows our needs and though His blessing didn’t come early in this matter, there was a good reason. The most important item, NOT ON THE LIST, was the ‘beautiful and intelligent’ Abigail, who became his wife after God took her husband.
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you”. Matthew 7:7
Ask God that He would open His hand and release that which He has for you today.
God bless and keep you in this New Year.