DAILY MANNA FRIDAY 3RD JANUARY, 2020 BEWARE OF THEIR EVIL TACTICS! BY PST. KUMUYI

DAILY MANNA
FRIDAY 3RD JANUARY, 2020
BEWARE OF THEIR EVIL TACTICS!
TEXT: 1 SAMUEL 18:22-30
KEY VERSE: “And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines” (1 SAMUEL 18:25).
Christopher Columbus kept two records of the distances travelled on his first voyage to the New World in the Santa Maria. One was true, but he deliberately faked the other. To alleviate his crew’s fear that they were getting too far from home on an unknown sea, Columbus gave them a reduced mileage estimate. When, for example, he told them on September 11, 1492, that they had covered 16 leagues, he recorded 20 in his secret log. Though he didn’t know it, Columbus’ “true” distance records were overestimated by 9 percent on the average. His faked distances came out closer to the actual distances travelled. When the crew found out about his deception, they threatened mutiny. Before they did, however, land – and a New World– appeared.
King Saul in our text was so envious about David’s success that he plotted to kill him. Not to appear too obvious that he wanted David dead, he decided to employ some deceptions in his tactics. In his belated attempt to fulfil the promise about giving out his daughter in marriage to the hero who killed Goliath, Saul asked for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines as dowry in hope that David would be killed while securing them. David met the requirement and married his daughter. This was very disappointing to Saul and made him fear David the more.
Someone said : “It takes so much energy to lie. I wish people could grasp the sense of the freedom and liberation that comes with being honest and genuine.” Saul’s many attempts to kill David failed because he was very wise and did not fall into fall the traps set by the king.
We must be wise as serpents and harmless as doves while crossing the murky waters of this world.We must walk carefully and prayerfully under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Be careful while in the presence of evil people.
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