Pride, Lies And Scorn

Pride, lies and scorn

Two queens and what GOD wants.

Micah 6:6-8

All scripture is profitable for teaching.

Where you find pride, you will find scorn and despising of other people. Scorn blinds people and makes you think that you are god or better than others and so you start taking matters into your own hands, manipulating, scheming and plotting. Where there is pride, the feeling of I am better than you will not be absent. Lies too will not be absent. And we know that lies morph until, most clarity if not all is blurred. Talk about a web of deceit that spins and spins until it is out of control. From Lucifer to Adam and Eve to us, from pride to lies to outright blind chaos. So blind are we, when The MESSIAH came we ensured he was dead, yet HE is The TRUTH and LIFE and laid down HIS life willingly and took it up again. Look people, a battle against CHRIST cannot be won.

Bottom line, part of the moral of this writing is that eventually, whatever is in your heart will be exposed for your glory or for your shame and disgrace.

So, we have two queens. Two ladies connected to immense wealth and strategic position. Abigail and Michal were contemporaries. Queen Michal of Israel formerly Princess Michal of Israel and Queen Abigail of Israel formerly Mrs. Abigail Nabal wife of Nabal the wealthy drunken fool.

Both were beautiful, co wives. Each experienced a marital relationship with David and with another man, for Abigael it was Nabal the rich fool and for Michal, Adriel the man who wept after her like a love-sick puppy dog till he was rudely and abruptly dismissed by Abner and promptly left. I bet if David met him, David would have spat in absolute disgust and contempt. Anyway back to our sermon, these two ladies had the best the world had to offer in addition to being married to a king. Privileged women. Not your typical Cinderella story of rags to riches. Real queens of Israel. King David series. In this episode we are giving Queen Bathsheba a break.

However, one key difference among the two women. Their attitude towards GOD, sacred things ,holy things and David.

Small pointer when Abigail met David she prophesied, 1 Samuel 25:23-31, when Michal saw David in service to The MOST HIGH she despised him, she scorned him in her heart and told him so to his face and David mentioned her dead father unfavorably in the ensuing couple word throw fest and their differences were irreconcilable from then on. Cruel? Maybe. But she had also mentioned or alluded to David’s FATHER who was also David’s GOD and so all brakes and bets were off. Ladies, get angry at me if you want but don’t start fights with your husband about his family because when he mentions yours you’ll be scarred for life with the possibility of barrenness and loneliness rising and you will be easily replaced. Did I say that? Yes, I did.

We see Abigail honoring David, bowing low before him. Using wise words in what is undoubtedly a serious life threatening situation caused by her husband, a situation that endangered her life and other lives. We see her active in thought and womanly responsibilities that are discussed openly in Titus 2 but shunned by women nowadays, including women who call themselves children of GOD, yet they have chaotic homes and can’t even cook a pancake but will blame the man for all the ills in her life and the world while she has spends her days lazily self absorbed, mopping around with a long face watching vain people on screens. Proverbs 28:19.

Back to Abigail and Michal, one being able to walk out of a cursed situation into royalty simply by using wisdom and womanly intuition, another walking into barrenness and loneliness by being selfish and using her words.

See Michal. No doubt a little bit spoilt no fault of her own, but when the time came for her real heart to be exposed, as will one day come for all of us, Michal despised David and his worship of The MOST HIGH. She spoke rudely and condescendingly to him. Before that she lied to her own father. She could have let David escape and borne the consequences and bravely faced up to her father like Jonathan did. In addition, the Bible does not indicate that she resisted marriage to another man while David was still alive despite the bride price David paid for her.

As someone said, don’t trust people who betray their own relatives.

Let’s look at the ending, Michal disappears but even her big sister’s children are taken and killed because of their father Saul and his disregard for GOD and sacred instructions. She dies childless. But wait a minute! What kind of childlessness is this that extends to the whole family? This sister of hers, Merab was promised to David but given to another man. One feels for Michal at this stage in her life. Doubtlessly in tormenting sorrow, all the male relatives in her line were killed. Beloved, do not let a David, a man of GOD deservedly curse you, you will be a barren desert. Repent . Seek the mercy of GOD early.