Notice today we have witnessed the start of the divided kingdom. In a shortish space of time we have gone from being the people of God to the peoples of God and we see the Spirit of denomination. Why? Well God had anointed David to be the king but some people could not accept that and decided to set up the nation of Israel while David stayed in Judah (Judah is the tribe of kings). The first act of celebration for this new partition? War.
It says a lot about denomination or party spirit that we spend more time fighting than we do working together. So massively sad and also anger inspiring. All these great leaders we look up to across all these world denominations and they still struggle to work together because of (mostly) minor differences in doctrine that honestly are really not that important.
You also read about the sad death of Asahel who obviously didn't learn when to stop pursuing, another lesson for us today. We can get an idea in our head so strongly that we pursue it to the point of death.
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