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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
1 Samuel 19:1-18
Jonathan is very fond of David. Now the occasion arises when he has to speak out in favour of his friend before his father Saul!
If we love the Lord, we will not be ashamed of speaking about Him, in the first place in front of our own families. Without fear, we will confess Him who is without sin, who has beaten the great Enemy and by whom God has brought about a wonderful deliverance (cf. vv. 4, 5).
In response to Jonathan’s intervention, Saul swears by the name of the LORD that David will not be put to death – a promise that is soon to be forgotten. At the very moment when David is busy relieving Saul of the pressure of his evil spirit, the king again tries to kill him. How great is the ingratitude of the heart of man towards those who do them good, but especially towards the Saviour, of whom David is the type! (Psalms 109:4).
Then the unhappy king, wild with jealousy, pursues his own son-in-law into his house and even into his bed (see the title of Psalms 59). Michal protects her husband, but not like her brother, Jonathan, with a courageous confession; she uses lies and deceit.
David flees out of the window. Paul at Damascus, an object of the hatred of the Jews, had to escape by the same means (Acts 9:25; 2 Corinthians 11:32-33).
