Godliness With Contentment

# 264 - Today's Du-votional comes from: 1Sa 18:22-25, “And Saul commanded his servants, "Communicate with David secretly, and say, 'Look, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become the king's son-in-law.'" 23 So Saul's servants spoke those words in the hearing of David. And David said, "Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king's son-in-law, seeing I am a poor and lightly esteemed man?" 24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, "In this manner David spoke." 25 Then Saul said, "Thus you shall say to David: 'The king does not desire any dowry but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king's enemies.'" But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. (1 Sam 18:22-25) Well, you won't find that on your typical bridal registry! Clearly Saul is still trying to get rid of David. He establishes a dowry that will require the killing of 100 Philistines. His plan is to put David at risk on the battlefront so he can be rid of him once and for all. David is all too happy to oblige the king because quite frankly he couldn't afford anything else. He had already been embarrassed by getting jilted at the altar by Saul's oldest daughter, who was likely given to another man who could put up some serious cash for a dowry. Now another daughter has been offered to him and he says, “Look quit playing with me and mocking my poverty. You tell the king that I can't afford his daughter!” This opened the door to Saul's counter offer. Let's talk about being poor. David seemed a little ashamed of his lack of wealth and you and I often fall into that trap as well. Even though, for the most part, we are amazingly well off materially in America we often find ourselves lamenting our lack of wealth. Listen to what the Holy Spirit says speaking through the Apostle Paul in 1Ti 6:9 “But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.” Desiring to be wealthy is a snare. A deadly trap. Rather let us learn to pray the prayer of Pr 30:8, “Give me neither poverty nor riches-Feed me with the food allotted to me” Father help us to learn that godliness with contentment is great gain!