And You?

     In our Bible study for this semester we are studying Beth Moore's David: Seeking a Heart Like His.  There are many things about David's life that astound me!  There's good, bad, and downright ugly.  Some things I am learning for what seems like the first time!  I cannot get over the amount of wives David took on.  For a moment, let's just pretend that we are one of them...  a wife of David., a wife of a man who was considered to have a heart like God's.  And yet, as the wife of a promised king, you have to deal with your husband being gone all the time to war, matters of adultery and polygamy, not to mention being chased by people who want to kill your family!

     Let's compare David and Job for a minute:  Job, not called by the Bible a man with a heart like God's, but we see him honoring God in his actions even in the midst of some pretty hard trials.  He lost ALL that he had... except his wife!  (Oh the irony!)  His wife had a different attitude towards God and her husband and the trials they encountered.  She was bitter and hateful, ugly and disrespectful with a complete lack of faith and trust in their God.

     Though neither one of these wives had ideal circumstances in their marriages, they both chose to react in a completely different way toward their husband.  And, though Job was never referred to as a man after God's own heart, he and David both sought the Lord and kept their eyes focused on the one who is in control, God.

     Anyways, I thought it brought forth some interesting questions as I was thinking about all of this:

1) If you were David's wife and you were being cheated on, knowing that he was called of God and that he was the one who had a heart like God's, what would you have done?  In this day and age would you have divorced him, or trusted God? *
2) If you were Job's wife, how would you have reacted?  Would you have gotten mad at Job and at God for everything that was going on?  Would you have divorced him because of situations, unknowing of the fact that God was allowing it all?

     It's a lot to think about!  These women knew a whole lot less than we do, because we are able to read the story from above the situation, knowing facts, while they were IN the situation.  How fast we often overreact to situations when we just need to stop, pray and trust God.  He knows all, He sees all, He is Sovereign and He has NOT forgotten you!

(*This is in no way condoning a person to act in the way David did that was sinful, but a reminder that we are all sinful and sometimes, I bet, there are things we even hope others overlook and forgive in us.)