Abigail – Christ-Like

1 Samuel 25:23-25 When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground. 24 She fell at his feet and said: “My lord, let the blame be on me alone. Please let your servant speak to you; hear what your servant has to say. 25 May my lord pay no attention to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name — his name is Fool, and folly goes with him.”
 
WE return to Abigail once more as the result of a pastor in Kenya responding to yesterday’s lesson. He wrote, “I’m grateful for Abigail recognizing David was a servant of the Lord, and she sent a generous gift to David. With the gift, she humbled herself at his feet as a substitute for Nabal, pleading for his life. Abigail accepted that her husband was ill-mannered, rude, and she sought grace on his behalf.”
    This gives us a much broader picture in this story than of Abigail protecting both her husband and David. As Abigail interceded to David with gifts of value, we can see the story illustrate Christ Jesus interceding before the Father to save us thankless people.
    Nabal was ungrateful for David’s protection. He was inhospitable to welcome David and his men to a meal. He reveled without thought that his decisions endangered his life. Is this not our sin-laden lives? We neglect God’s providence and protection, thinking our life is our own. We are ignorant to seek and to know God’s truth. We live unaware our lives are at the mercy of a holy God.
    Abigail mediates before David to save her husband’s life. Who is our great mediator? 1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. Our Lord Jesus has submitted his own life, the highest value of all, to satisfy the wrath of God (that) is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. (Romans 1:18)
    Abigail, the mediator, saves Nabal, the sinner, from David, the wrathful avenger. Jesus, the mediator, saves us the sinners from the Father’s righteous wrath.
    The Holy Scriptures always point to Jesus, even in the briefest moments. For whom do must you intercede before the Father? Are you a Christ-like servant to stand for people who need protection from God’s wrath?  
 
Romans 5:8-9 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him!