(credit: Varsha Salome)
Even as you hit the fast lane of life with furious strides that brook no brakes, won’t you pause a moment to grab a grain of scriptural truth embedded herein ? (click on hypertext in the Day’s Reading for reference verse)
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God bless
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The price of skepticism
While advice from others is helpful, you should be in a position to think for yourself, keep your own counsel. This is where Hanun, the new king of Ammon miserably failed. David sends a delegation of ambassadors in order to condole the death of his father Nahash; Hanun listening to his princes who were too clever by half, completely misread David’s good intention.
It is a sad story: Hanun lost the battle, lost his people, lost his wealth, lost his reinforcements, lost his crown, lost everything. And he disappears from the Bible without an honourable mention.
Had he but believed in the goodness of people!
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*7 July, setting 1 January as Day 1