God's wrath

1 ^1-2 Shortly after Saul died, David returned to Ziklag from his rout of the Amalekites. Three days later a man showed up unannounced from Saul’s army camp.

^2-3 Disheveled and obviously in mourning, he fell to his knees in respect before David. David asked, “What brings you here?”
He answered, “I’ve just escaped from the camp of Israel.”
⁴ “So what happened?” said David. “What’s the news?”
He said, “The Israelites have fled the battlefield, leaving a lot of their dead comrades behind. And Saul and his son Jonathan are dead.”
⁵ David pressed the young soldier for details: “How do you know for sure that Saul and Jonathan are dead?”
^6-8 “I just happened by Mount Gilboa and came on Saul, badly wounded and leaning on his spear, with enemy chariots and horsemen bearing down hard on him. He looked behind him, saw me, and called me to him. ‘Yes sir,’ I said, ‘at your service.’ He asked me who I was, and I told him, ‘I’m an Amalekite.’”
⁹ “Come here,” he said, “and put me out of my misery. I’m nearly dead already, but my life hangs on.”
¹⁰ “So I did what he asked—I killed him. I knew he wouldn’t last much longer anyway. I removed his royal headband and bracelet, and have brought them to my master. Here they are.”
^11-12 In lament, David ripped his clothes to ribbons. All the men with him did the same. They wept and fasted the rest of the day, grieving the death of Saul and his son Jonathan, and also the army of God and the nation Israel, victims in a failed battle.
¹³ Then David spoke to the young soldier who had brought the report: “Who are you, anyway?”
“I’m from an immigrant family—an Amalekite.”
^14-15 “Do you mean to say,” said David, “that you weren’t afraid to up and kill God’s anointed king?” Right then he ordered one of his soldiers, “Strike him dead!” The soldier struck him, and he died.

 A man showed up to David, an Amalekite, who escaped from an Israel camp. He expected reward, but he received death instead. Human intentions are evil, self centered. We should just lay those human intentions and leave it on the cross and be made new by God, renew your mind with Christ centered thoughts. David was like a secret agent! He lived in enemy lands, yet keeping covenant of what God have given him. He is the next king of Israel. Samuel annoited him, Saul recognized it and Jonathan acknowledged him. It is clear to him. But for the Amalekites, he was thought as a friend, exile from Israel. He have a heart like God. Even though Saul is dead. He did not go like "Yay the king is dead, so i can be king." He did not go like "I have waited long time for this" he did not rejoice. But he wept, because he lost a father. Israel lost a king , annoited by God. Yet, when this Amalekite soilder came to him rejoicing with the king's robe and headband, claiming to have killed the king just to gain praise and recognition from David. So David killed him. David is really indeed a man after God's heart with a heart of Christ. Amen and Amen! Praise the Lord!