On the Continent of Europe engagements are made public, and the families send circulars to their friends with the names of the engaged parties printed together, so that, for very shame, they are not lightly broken, as they often are in England and in America. One party may break it off very lightly while the heart of the other may be so wounded as never through life entirely to recover, unless the Lord Himself takes the place which has been left void by a heartless trifler. It should never be entered into byĬhristian young people without a clear understanding of the mind of God. "What God hath joined together let no man put asunder." ( Mat 19:6.) The promise to spend life's journey together is no light promise to make, no light promise to keep, and, still more, no light promise to break. One hears of a young couple engaged to be married, and for the merest trifle, this covenant, which ought to be made in heaven, is broken. There is, in the present day, especially amongst certain classes of our population, an appalling lightness about engagements to marry. Neither God nor David were all in all to her. Then it was that Michal his wife was given to another, and she very soon forgot her first love. The enmity of Saul against David increased, and David was obliged to flee. There was a want of integrity about Saul's daughter which followed her through life.
Was ready with her lie, and told Saul that he was sick.ĭisappointed of his purpose, Saul commanded that the messengers should bring David up in the bed, that he might be slain, and the imperious king found that Michal had substituted an image on which he should wreak his vengeance and so she had mocked him.Ī woman who will be untrue to her father will be untrue to her husband also. But Saul was not so easily to be put off and when her father commanded that David should be brought to him, Michal Hearing of her father's determination to slay David, she persuaded him to flee, and she let him down through a window, that he might escape. He had said, "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me" ( Psa 23:4) but Michal substituted human devices for faith in God. David's wife did not share his confidence in God. At first she took her husband's side against her ungodly father, but in doing so, she betrayed the treachery of her heart, and when Saul sent to take David, she did not hesitate to tell a lie to screen him from Saul's anger. He arose with his men, slew two hundred Philistines instead of one, and so earned Michal to be his wife.
How little Saul knew the shield that was protecting God's chosen king, and that no power of his could take away the life which God chose to preserve!ĭavid was pleased to be Saul's son‐in‐law he saw God's hand at work to give him a claim to the kingdom.
But in Saul's wicked heart there was, all the time, a hope that he would lose his life in the attempt. Saul, under the influence of Satan as he was, made Michal's love to David serve his own ends, and promised her to him to wife if he should slay one hundred Philistines and he sent his servants that they might commune with David and instigate him to purchase Michal for his wife by such a slaughter of the king's enemies.
But the Spirit of the Lord had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit had gained possession of him.ĭavid was of a beautiful countenance ( 1Sa 16:12), and the younger daughter of Saul lost her heart to him, yet it would seem that Michal was attracted far more by David's external appearance than by any appreciation of his godly life. Through His servant Samuel, God had already anointed David as His chosen king over His people Israel.
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