32 David said to Abigail, ‘Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me. 33 May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. 1 Samuel 25, also yesterday’s blog.
SOMETIMES IN THE RAVINE, THE TIGHT AND CONSTRICTED PLACE, GOD STOPS OUR PLANS IN ORDER TO RELEASE HIS!
Abigail interceded with David and his 400 men on behalf of her household and after he’d listened to her he calmed down. God sent a messenger to appease David’s wrath and stop him from taking revenge on Nabal. (Nabal in Hebrew means fool)
3 Stone is heavy and sand a burden,
but provocation by a fool is heavier than both. Proverbs 27
David had been seriously Provoked by Nabal, a pompous Fool, but God stopped David and blessed him from the very place that had insulted him. GOD CAN BRING BLESSING FROM THE VERY SOURCE OF OUR TROUBLE AND THEY MAY NOT EVEN REALISE IT’S HAPPENING!
35 Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought to him and said, ‘Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.’
David Accepted The Offering of Appeasement which had been brought to him and he blessed Abigail, wife of Nabal. Godly and discerning wives can still save their husbands much trouble today, by turning away strife from them.
36 When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. (Perhaps that’s how he saw himself, King Nabal) He was in high spirits and very drunk. (Her husband wasn’t in a mood to listen) So she told him nothing at all until daybreak.
Abigail postponed telling her husband what had happened, but when things had quietened down and the revelry had stopped she revealed the whole truth to him. Nabal’s heart failed him at the thought of what had almost happened. But then God intervened and finished what David wanted to do himself.
37 Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone. 38 About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal and he died.
This Biblical account does have a happy ending, when the, ‘beautiful and intelligent Abigail’, became David’s wife. Prophet Russ Walden said the Lord had spoken to him one time and told him, ‘You’re going where you’re giving!’ Certainly true for Abigail.
The Lord bless and keep you today.