Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
I read Robert Hawker’s comments on this passage, where he writes, “May we not, without violence to the subject, behold in the unremitting persecution of David by Saul something more than the mere jealousies of nature in the envy of Saul to David, respecting his succession in the kingdom? Are there not traces to be seen of the still greater envy arising in the mind of the unregenerate, in the view of the Lord’s favour towards His people in a spiritual kingdom? Alas! what bitterness do the children of the wicked one manifest toward the children of the kingdom! Like the corrupt stock from which they shoot, their very vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah.”
I note that while David did Saul no evil, and for the moment Saul seemed to be at peace with David, David still did not reunite with him.
The children of this world seem to go through periods of ease with our faith, as we have seen for more than two hundred years in the United States, and as there was in England after the Acts of Toleration. But the child of God is foolish to believe that such periods are either sincere or long-lived.
David was wise to go on his way and let Saul return to his place. His blessing meant little more than a moment to breathe before the next bout in the battle between good and evil. The accolades of the world toward our faith can become the very snare that sets us in their trap.
We have a place of our own. We do not belong in the courts of the kings of this world.
Soon enough our Lord will call for us. Be content to do your business and await that call.
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Blessed Words, Separate Ways:Wisdom Walks Away
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