Saul’s acts of desperation grow.
Volatile and megalomanic, Saul can’t see that David is his chief asset. Instead he sees him as competition and as threat. Saul fires David from his inner circle and sends him out into the front lines where he hopes he will be killed.
Watching this from 3,000 years distance we see the King’s demise and descent. It’s a train wreck in slow motion. It’s not going to end well. There will be no sudden change of heart. Saul is sick.
And as is so often the case with the sick, Saul hates David because the LORD is with David. The sick can’t stand the well — nor the Great Physician either . . .
NOTE: We’re reading the whole Bible this year. We enter now into the Psalms David is said to have written while on the run from Saul. Tomorrow’s Lesson will be from Psalms 7, 27, 31, 34 and 52.
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