The Blessed Keepers

S – 1 Samuel 25:33

 

‘May you be blessed for your good judgement and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hand.’

 

O – David knew that Abigail had intervened in his life and stopped him from doing something he would regret. I wonder how many men David had killed over the years of his life and battles. What was the difference with this man Nabal? I guess it’s the difference between what was part of his life’s cause, mandate and destiny, verses what was an emotional response and for his own self satisfaction and revenge. He then blesses Abigail for her intervention. I wonder if he realised that he may have put his whole life’s prophetic purpose on the line if he had acted out of self interest. He seemed to know he had been kept or restrained from a wrong action.

 

A – Blessed are the Keepers – Those people who make good judgement and speak into others lives and perhaps save their prophetic destinies. It challenges me that I need these ‘keepers’ around my life. How easy it is to have reaction and emotions that can lead to actions that have prophetic consequences. Responses of self justification, self avenging in so many situations. Yet these responses in the natural can have such implications for the future and my effectiveness in what I have been called to do. It makes me realise how important to have these ‘blessed keepers’ around my life. They keep me from carrying consequences that I may never have thought of or understood the danger.

 

P – Lord, I pray for a protection of wisdom and ‘Keepers’ that will prevent selfish acts that will have prophetic consequences.