Sharing Equally

God Instructs the People of God

Listening for God in Changing Times:

Empowering the Needy

1 Samuel 30:21-25

The Message

 ²¹ Then David came to the two hundred who had been too tired to continue with him and had dropped out at the Brook Besor. They came out to welcome David and his band. As he came near he called out, "Success!"
 ²² But all the mean-spirited men who had marched with David, the rabble element, objected: "They didn't help in the rescue, they don't get any of the plunder we recovered. Each man can have his wife and children, but that's it. Take them and go!"
 ^23-25 "Families don't do this sort of thing! Oh no, my brothers!" said David as he broke up the argument. "You can't act this way with what God gave us! God kept us safe. He handed over the raiders who attacked us. Who would ever listen to this kind of talk? The share of the one who stays with the gear is the share of the one who fights—equal shares. Share and share alike!" From that day on, David made that the rule in Israel—and it still is.
 
For Reflection 

"Mean-spirited men...the rabble element..."
Who are they? 
Have you seen them? 
The rational ones. 
The legalistic ones. 
The fairness fighters; filled with righteous indignation. 
The epitome of cultural bias--the selfish. 

All share equally the spoils in the Kingdom of God.

Pray
that you are not caught up in the culture of the present kingdom.  Pray that you follow Christ in the Kingdom of God.  Pray for supreme selflessness.