MAD GRACE
Hi, this next blog of mine will be of a story of a small piece of biblical history between 2 kings. I believe I’m being led to share with you, the understanding of the absolute gift, of living your christian life, with an anointing of grace on it. This is a somewhat long lesson but one worth sharing. It’s gonna be coming to you, in 4 separate parts.
Part 1
Grace by definition according to a man-of-God I deeply admire and respect, is the divine enablement to do, be and have what God has called us to do, be and have. Websters defines it as unmerited divine assistance given to humans; and the dictionary in my laptop offers the definition as a capacity to tolerate, accommodate, or forgive people, hence, the blog’s title.
As I said earlier, this is about 2 kings. King 1 is named Saul. King 2 is named David. I have so dubbed them because of their succession to kingship over the nation of Israel. It appears that King Saul may have ultimately suffered from an overwhelming case of rebellion during his reign. It’s been from my study of scripture that I learned King David would have to call on some pretty mad grace from God in order to get his job as king done. The term mad here is a colloquialism from the 90's meaning extreme.
We begin by taking a quick glance into the life of King 1. I or 1st Samuel chapter 9 through chapter 10, verse 1 illustrate his placement as king over Israel.
Scriptures that prove the reason for the unstable ways of King Saul are found in 1st Samuel chapter 12, verses 18 through 25 (A dude by the name of Samuel is an Old Testament prophet here and has been given the task of leading the people of Israel as their proverbial man of God). In this instance, we see him admonishing them. The passages earlier mentioned contain Samuel’s address at Saul’s coronation. At 1st Sam. chap. 13, verses 1 through 15, we see not even in position 2 years, Saul is already doing his own thing and has abandoned the Lord’s protocols. After a series of wanton missteps and mishaps, that clearly establish him as having his heart closed to his God, the Lord takes his kingship away.
Now we fast forward to I Sam. chap. 16 wherein is the precise, explicit direction of God to the man of God, to appoint Israel another king. King David. One that according to the Lord at 1st Sam chapter 13, verse 14, is a man after His own heart.
Come back for Part 2 kids. I’ll be posting it in a few days from now.
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