1 Samuel 25 --God bless the woman whose God is the Lord!

Nabal and Samuel death were recorded in the same chapter.

There is significance to me of this loss on both sides of the ledger. The place of women had risen so much in the days of Samuel, I think. I see Hannah’s prayers and the blessing that women can be and do and grow, because of the loving prayerful intercession of women for the life of God’s Word in their day.

Samuel, though not perfect, was God’s means to bring a godly standard back to Israel after their wanderings of heart. Foolishness died in Nabal and it was as though the blindness that thinks that there is no God,{there is no David?} died with Nabal.

God would use another woman after Deborah, to show that women are not at all an afterthought in the covenant. God uses their ministry to preserve life and to guide the young and to pray most of all that we would never return to Ichabod. God is very sensitive to the pains of the women in these circumstances.

God in the New Testament has just the similar pattern of deliverances for us. Obedience draws his favor and when we promote licenciousness in the name of grace and mercy, we are most of all deceived. If God spared not the angels and every transgression of Israel was recompensed, How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation. Repentance is called for, not justification of self, because we can’t help it. Jesus paid it all for everything ,but presumption. Especially for us who are in the deluge of Mercy and Light.

Hannah to Abigail, godliness in womanhood to be attained unto. Hannah was perceptive of the spiritual downfall and prayed for God to change it. Abigail was a political force and her prudence of provision and forethought abated a war. God has use for the women whose God is the Lord. Halleluia, what a Savior.

“Lord, give us grace that we, like them the meek and lowly, on high may dwell with Thee.”

Dolly, reminds me of the woman at the well here.