This week we are continuing our study of Abigail and answering the question of whether wives should submit to their husbands.
I think we can all learn something from Abigail about dealing with confrontation. It’s funny because it doesn’t seem like she is confronting David but she is. She just does it so carefully that you almost don’t even notice that it’s what she is doing.
So what does David do, how does he respond to Abigail? Well, thankfully, he does what we all should do when we are rushing off to do the wrong thing: be humble enough to listen to sense. He listened and actually heard what Abigail was saying to him. And he actually thanks her for it. How many of us could say that we have thanked someone for pointing out or confronting us on our sinful behaviour?? Well actually technically David thanks God for sending Abigail to him. But I think that counts as thanking her too - David also asks God to bless her for her good judgement and he agrees with one of the first things she said to him - that the Lord HAD kept him from bloodshed that day. The Lord had kept David from bloodshed - by sending her.
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