bound in the bundle of the living with the LORD

The Word for today:
1 Samuel 25:1--26:25

mark this: 1 Samuel 25:29



Abigail appeals to the best that is in David, and turns him from vengeful bloodshed.

As she does, she makes one of the most remarkable statements in all of scripture:
Yet a man has risen to pursue you and seek your life, but the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the LORD your God; and the lives of your enemies He shall sling out, as from the pocket of a sling (1).

From the moment we trust Christ as Savior, we are said to be in Christ:
If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. (2)

Don't break your brain contemplating how this can be. God has provided many pictures which show us persons so close they are one with each other:

Marriage: Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. (3)

Church: For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. (4)

Trinity: God Himself is a part never apart.

Like I said, don't break your brain. All you've really got to know is that you don't ever have to face life alone again. You're part of something. You're part of Someone. You breathe His breath (5).

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(1) 1 Samuel 25:29; (2) 1 John 4:15; see also Galatians 2:20; John 17:21; (3) Genesis 2:24; (4) 1 Corinthians 12:13; (5) Genesis 2:7