Wisdom
How did someone like Abigail get together with a man
like Nabal? Was he so handsome she had to have him? Or did his
wealth turn the heads of her parents?
Might they possibly have been happy? It seems hard to
accept, since every translation indicates he was a rude oaf, but such
things have happened.
At any rate, Abigail knew how to run the household.
The servants came to her when decisions needed to be made, she knew
how to cover her husband's offenses, and when the best times were to
talk to him.
No doubt she had to know these things to survive.
She must have spent time with God, for she saw God's
hand in the servant's telling her of the coming attack. She believed
the promise of David's coming kingship, even when he was just a
shepherd on the run. She could remind him that God preferred His
people leave their revenge in His hands, rather than take it into
their own.
But
if any of you lacks wisdom, he should pray to God,
who
will give it to him,
because
God gives generously and graciously to all.
But
when you pray, you must believe and not doubt at all.
James
1:5, 6aTEV
Abigail was in a difficult situation, but she didn't
shrink from caring for her household, and her husband, wisely and
bravely, trusting God with the results. (For Abigail's story, see I Samuel 25.)
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