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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
1 Samuel 25:32-44
Whilst Nabal feasts like a king (after having rejected and insulted the true king), God Himself smites him. We lose nothing by letting the Lord act for us.
Abigail, a woman of faith, stands out by her good understanding, her eagerness (she hastens: vv. 18, 23, 42), her humility and her devotedness. "When the LORD . . . shall have appointed thee ruler . . . remember thine handmaid," she had asked (vv. 30, 31; compare this with the request of the malefactor in Luke 23:42).
She receives a reply which exceeds all her hopes; David now makes her his wife. And without a single regret, this woman leaves her earthly riches in order to share the lot of the rejected king in caves and deserts. Previously married to a fool, she becomes the happy companion of the "beloved one", in his sufferings now, but also in his reign later. What a beautiful picture of the Church, the bride of Christ, sharing the position of her Lord, today unknown and rejected by the world as He is Himself; tomorrow coming to reign with Him in glory! "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him", we are reminded in 2 Timothy 2:12 (see also Romans 8:17).
