David and the King

⁶ When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs and with timbrels and lyres. ⁷ As they danced, they sang:

“Saul has slain his thousands,
    and David his tens of thousands.”

⁸ Saul was very angry; this refrain displeased him greatly. “They have credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought, “but me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?” ⁹ And from that time on Saul kept a close eye on David.

 I think sometimes i am like this, when people say that i am not as good as someone else, i will get affected. But i would get over it quickly. I have come to realize that the things i do i do not do unto people, but unto God. As long as we do unto God, we would not be affected by the circumstance and the result. Saul was very angry, he was not only angry, but very angry. Imagine you are the king and some one actually said that! It would be good for you to do nothing and feel nothing. But it is even better to humble oneself and come before God and recognize that we are instruments of God, the glory is not unto oneself. It must be really insulting to the king that when people come out dancing for him they praised David. One thing that we really have to remember, what we do is unto God not man. The results are owned by God, not us. We give the glory unto God not us. and people are just people, we should not be affected by what they say!