Have you watched relationships change? It’s amazing when an enemy becomes a friend. That is the greatest feeling, a debt converted to an asset. I’ve seen a few of my “enemies” become friends over the years, and it is so satisfying.
But when it goes the other way, it is devastating.
When people you love stop loving you for no reason—THAT HURTS. It hurts so much.
When Saul met David the “courageous warrior, eloquent and handsome… SAUL ADMIRED HIM GREATLY, and David became his armor bearer” 1 Samuel 16:18,21. When David killed Goliath, “Saul kept David with him from that day on” 1 Sam. 18:2. David began leading troops and “was successful in everything Saul sent him to do” v.5.
But Saul began to feel threatened: “Saul was afraid of David because THE LORD WAS WITH DAVID, BUT HAD LEFT SAUL…. David continued to be successful because the Lord was with him. When Saul observed that David was very successful, HE DREADED HIM” v.12,14-15. Eventually, Saul convinced David to become his son-in-law. So they became family—LITERALLY. And Saul asked both his daughter Michal, and his son, Jonathan, to betray David, but the two loved him, leaving Saul to spend the rest of his life on a quest to murder David.
David ached over his broken relationship with the king.
No one was ever a more loyal servant than David was to Saul—even after Saul tried to kill him. David was absolutely loyal and honorable, yet Saul always believed the worst about him.
So what did David do? He took it to God. Psalms 69 and 109 contain great words about the hurt Saul caused David (and that Judas would later cause Jesus).
“With words of hatred they surround me. They attack me without cause. In return for friendship, they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer” Psalm 109:3-4.
Jesus has been there. He was betrayed by a close friend. He knows how it feels. Read Psalm 69 and 109 and let him share your hurt.
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