Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Topic: “Watch Your Words!”
Text: 2 Samuel 1:11-16
11. David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and all the men who were with him did the same. 12. They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul, for Jonathan his son, for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword. 13. David said to the young man who had brought him the news, “Where are you from?” And he answered, “I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite.” 14. David said to him, “How was it that you were not afraid to stretch out your hand against the LORD’S anointed and kill him?” 15. Then David called one of his men and said, “Come near and kill him!” This man struck the Amalekite, and he died. 16. And David said to him, Let your blood be upon your own head, for your own mouth has testified against you, because you said, I have slain the Lord's anointed.
Remember:
It often happens that our mouths come out with a word that betrays our own tragic enormity committed in secret. Our mouths are great revealers of secrets. There are revealing slips of the tongue that reveal what the person was thinking while they did not want to say it in public. A slip of the tongue is an expression that betrays the true thoughts of the person who commits it. Now, in this case, this young Amalekite had not planned to kill the king; he believed that he was doing David a favor by eliminating his enemy. But David was filled with reverence for God's anointed. For him, an anointed of God should not be killed by a mortal man, even if he was his enemy. He would have let Saul end his days in the hands of God, may God take care of his fate. David had several opportunities to kill Saul but he never took action. He was careful not to kill God's anointed. Instead of rejoicing at the death of his jealous man, David moped and lamented, in addition to dying with Jonathan his son, David's friend. The young Amalekite arrived to announce his guilt. If he had watched his word, he would not have died. If he had refrained from making this declaration, David would not have taken his life. A poorly controlled mouth can become a mortal danger because it can make a perilous confession. The mouth of the young Amalekite made an irreversible, irrevocable and guilty declaration. Let us control our mouth. Excellent Tuesday. Amen
Alain Louz.-
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