God’s Grace Makes Us Work Harder
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is 1 Samuel 18:17-30. As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first. See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below. Let’s go!
1 Samuel 18:17 (NIV)
17 Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage; only serve me bravely and fight the battles of the LORD.” For Saul said to himself, “I will not raise a hand against him. Let the Philistines do that!”
On verse 17: Because Saul envied David, Saul wanted to David dead. So he devised a plan that would hopefully get David killed without getting Saul himself in trouble. Saul would try to offer David one of his daughters – first his oldest daughter Merab and, then later, his younger daughter Michal – in marriage on the condition that David fights against the Philistines, hoping that David would be killed in battle. Yet David would not be killed and would take Michal as his wife.
