September 10, 2021
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Reading along with us in 1 Samuel? Here’s today’s reading:
1 Samuel 20 (NIV)
David and Jonathan
1 Then David fled from Naioth at Ramah and went to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my crime? How have I wronged your father, that he is trying to kill me?”
2“Never!” Jonathan replied. “You are not going to die! Look, my father doesn’t do anything, great or small, without letting me know. Why would he hide this from me? It isn’t so!”
3 But David took an oath and said, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself, ‘Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved.’ Yet as surely as the Lord lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death.”.........Continue Reading
What a special relationship David and Jonathan had. It must have been a difficult situation for Jonathan wanting to see the good in his father and hoping his intentions were good but at the same time wanting to protect his friend from being killed. Ultimately he put that relationship first knowing that their relationship was based in a shared faith and obedience to God.
Sometime even family relationships can be destructive in our lives when we are dealing with unbelievers. Hard to see eye to eye on issues when you are coming from such a different heart.
1 Samuel 20
1 Samuel 18-20
What a great model of friendship we have here between David and Jonathan and their commitment to each other’s well being. How sad it is that the relationship has to be used to save David from Saul. It is interesting that Jonathan realizes what God has made David and so he asks David to protect him as much as David is asking Jonathan to protect him. So they make a plan to asses what Saul’s attitude is toward David and devise a way to communicate Saul’s intentions. It is incredible to see how easily Saul can be tweaked with thoughts of David being away rather being in Saul’s presence where he can keeps tabs on him and kill him. How wrong for him to express these thoughts about Jonathan and then try to kill HIM for helping David. It is a little humorous (and sad too) that Saul at this point says you are your mother’s son and not mine…….
David and Jonathan’s relationship is the picture of faithfulness and brotherly love.