[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Lessons from women in the Bible: “Michal: “The critical wife”

By Oke Chinye

Read: 2 Samuel 6:1-23

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Meditation verse:

“Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul  came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious was the king of Israel today,  uncovering himself today in the eyes of the maids of his servants, as one of the  base fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!” (2 Samuel 6:20).

Michal, David’s wife, had been married to another man before ending up in  David’s house. David had sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying,  “Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred foreskins  of the Philistines. And Ishbosheth sent and took her from her husband, Paltiel  the son of Laish. Then her husband went along with her to Bahurim, weeping  behind her. Abner said to him, “Go, return!” And he returned” (2 Samuel 3:14- 16). Perhaps this was the reason why she harboured a grudge in her heart for  David or perhaps it was simply because she was King Saul’s daughter; there was  no love lost between her father and David. Whatever was responsible for her  resentment, it cost her dearly. After criticizing her husband for dancing before  God in an “undignified manner”, God shut her womb and she had no children  up till the day of her death.  

Bitterness, anger, resentment, and envy are like cancers tearing at the fabrics of  our lives. If you remain bitter, critical, resentful or harbour a grudge towards your spouse, with whom you are supposed to be one, you are endangering your  destiny. When a woman’s heart is bitter towards her husband, her eyes are  blind, and she is incapable of seeing anything good about him and would end up  resenting even the things that are right about him. How could anyone be  criticized for dancing and praising God? Who determines the way God should be  praised? 

If you are currently harbouring a grudge towards your spouse, due to a past  wrongdoing settle it before it undermines your future. If you are currently a  bitter, angry, and critical woman because of your past, ask God to heal your  heart and give you a new beginning. Shake off the dust of your past. Every day is a fresh opportunity to start anew. Take hold of today’s opportunity.

IN HIS PRESENCE is written by Pst (Mrs) Oke Chinye, Founder of The Rock Teaching Ministry (TRTM).

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