ripples

so here's an obscure bit of passage. David and Goliath, everyone knows the story. Shepherd boy takes on the prize warrior of the Philistines and prevails against his armor and weapons, with a sling and stone. It's so well known that it's become a metaphor. So David kills Goliath and then uses Goliath's sword to cut of his head. Fast forward a bit and David is on the run from Saul. He is hungry and in need so he goes to the high priest and asks for food. This is the passage that Jesus references "Have you never read what david did when he and his followers were in need?"

On an interesting tangent, he says in Mark, "in the days of Abiathar the high priest." Well, in this time, Abiathar wasn't the high priest, it was his father. Saul has someone slaughter the priests and Abiathar is the only one who escaped, yet Jesus speaks about the time as Abiathar's time.

So back to the original thought, David needs food... and he needs weapons. He fled so fast he wasn't able to take anything with him. What kind of temple holds weapons? Apparently this one does and it holds a fine one indeed: The sword of Goliath "There is none like it" The death of Goliath, resulted in his sword coming into posession of the Israelites and later it proved for a need when David lacked. I've always said nobody can know the consequences of our actions save God. There are just too many factors and variables and even the smallest thing can change so much. See, to think that not doing something in the present only affects that situation is near sighted. Our actions are ripples that extend farther than we can imagine. Think of the most important person you met in your life and think of every single small deision that led up to that. You chose to go to that place, or to call this person, or to eat this which made you late, or something. They ripple to eternity.