Today we hear the story of the cur Nabal and his intelligent and beautiful wife, Abigail. After Nabal is struck down by the Lord, Abigail becomes one of David's wives.
Today’s psalm is for teaching and reminding each generation of the children of Israel about the great things God has done for the Jewish people.
What wonderful promises God has given to us in chapter 8 of Romans! That chapter always reminds me of a time when a Christian leader did wrong to me, and then said that it would all turn out OK because of Romans 8:28. That is the ultimate of hypocrisy and it ruined that verse for me for a long time. But God DOES indeed work all things for good for all of us who fulfill the conditions stated. Chapter 8 also reminds me of Eloise Burson, the wife of one of my spiritual fathers, Richard . Some years after her husband's death, she showed me how her Bible— if you just let it fall open, always opened to Romans 8. There is no richer passage to meditate on or to memorize. Note that starting with Romans 9, we are entering a difficult section of Paul's argument. Romans 12 starts with “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, …” But if you look back at what goes right before that in chapter 11, that doesn't seem to be what Paul is going back to with the word ‘Therefore’. Can you find what Paul was going back to and how the sections we will read for the next few days fit together?
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