March 28, 2011 Honoring God's Anointed

Honoring God’s Anointing
Read 1 Samuel 30-2 Samuel 2

2 Sam 1:11-12 David and his men tore their clothes in sorrow when they heard the news. 12 They mourned and wept and fasted all day for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the Lord’s army and the nation of Israel, because they had died by the sword that day.

SAUL persecuted and hunted David for years. Saul kept Jonathan, David’s best friend, from David. Saul used his troops and his resources to protect his reign. And yet, David mourns Saul’s death.
David knows that Saul was the LORD’s anointed one. God had chosen him to rule, and even though Saul ruled in human error, Saul was still God’s King, and Saul was to be honored as the LORD’s anointed.
If we say we love God, we are to honor those whom God has put in our lives. David displays time and again that the first love of his life is God. What God says and does, David honors.
Oh, David has errored, too, and he’ll do so again. But in the good and the bad, David’s primary consideration is how his actions affect his relationship with God.
God has given David some extremely difficult circumstances. God has given David great victories. David understands that everything, everything, comes from God.
Now, for David, it is time to mourn the passing of the LORD’s King of Israel. And David honors God with his mourning.


Pause and Consider: what God has placed on your heart to do today to honor his love for you.