Grace of Uncommited Homicide (1 Samuel 24)

Remember, about being disciplined, it is a work of grace. A work of God doing what we cannot do, the only thing we can, ‘do’ is just submit to His reality pervading our lives in a totally absolute sense. I realized today while reading 1 Sam 24 that David, in not murdering the Lords anointed, Saul, was submitting to a higher authority, and showing grace. He had realized that God had his plan, to anoint Saul as king, no matter the pains, murders, genocide that would occur because of it, God would get the glory. Even to the extent of great personal pain he would do anything so as not to directly oppose the Lords anointed. This is a hard thing because leaders in churches today are such like Saul. And yet if Christ is on the throne then we are to submit to him, and thus recognize, and respect where God has placed them. We don’t blindly do what they say, but we do no slander, or murder them, their witness, or their ministries in anyway. It is God who brings the fruit, who separates the wheat from the chaff, and who burns with unquenchable fire. Not us. We are held responsible for all we do before God.
One thing is that David, as a type of Christ gave grace to the totally undeserving Saul, he did not kill him, take advantage of him in weakness, he left him because he was Gods to deal with. So does not Christ deal so kindly with us that when we sin, when we are crusading upon our lives hoping to establish the flag of our own rights, the things we think we deserve, taking no prisoners, saying, ‘They deserved that!’ or ‘Im totally right, they are wrong’ or even, ‘I just feel I had to react that way.’ The clutch is that often we do this in the name of Christ, using scripture to justify ourselves. Christ could come in wrath, proving himself to be just and totally damning all our actions, because none are good. Even in our greatest moments it is only the Holy Spirit working out Christs love in us. None of the good things we do we can credit to ourselves because they are all fruits of faith in Christ, him working through us despite our sin (Gal 2:20). Christ however leads us kindly in this life, so slowly teaching us his will. We act, He gives mercy that we might praise him for his grace to continually be faithful to his own word about his love(Ps 103:17), and then to show his worth in our lives by then repenting and choosing to be drawn to his will rather than our own lusts(Phil 3:7,8; 1 Pet 4:1,2). So then as David showed grace to Saul not giving him his just due, and then preached the truth to Saul as a very accurate foreshadowing the ‘grace and truth’ that came through Christ. God preached to us through Christ both in example, and in word. As David showed his men in example to love your enemies, and in word to preach the value of trusting god above all else.