Lesson Theme: Is God Always Fair
Perhaps little is more telling of our modern value system than then incessant vexing desire to find out where the fickle finger of fault points to after a tragedy.
It is almost as if we can all sigh collectively that it isn’t ‘us’ this time, but rather, it was ______________’s fault, and they need to fix this.
We may never know who first quoted, “People will balance guilt with blame.”
In this weeks lesson, it is time to put on your thinking caps, and lets look at a puzzling account of a high priest in the Bible.
It is no secret that King Saul was an unstable man. His preoccupation of hunting down David bordered on derangement! In a fit of madness, he had the priests executed who offered aid to David by giving him to eat of the showbread.
Q: Why would God allow these preists, who honestly believed David was simply doing the will of the King, to die without mercy at the hand of an unstable king?
But it may surprise you to find out who’s fault it was that these priests were executed.
You can find this story, in which David, running for his life from Saul, pauses by the temple to gain a sword and something to eat in 1 Samuel 22.
Note: No PowerPoint lesson today. Let’s just use our Bibles and make some notes in the margins.
Is God Always Fair to Priests – Lesson
“Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
— 1 Samuel 22:9-10
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