1 Samuel 25:32

1 Samuel 25:32 says, And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:  David first gave God the credit for sending Abigail to speak to him.  As Christians, all the advice in the world is never going to do us any good unless we know that God is behind the advice.  Verse thirty-three adds, And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.  David then asked that Abigail be blessed, because she had kept him from acting out of anger and avenging what he saw as someone being ungrateful towards him by killing them.  We cannot allow self-pride to cause us to react with anger to those that we feel might have slighted.  Verse thirty-four continues, For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.  David told Abigail that as surely as God lived, had she not come to him, that by  morning none of Nabal’s men would have been alive by morning.  Of course, David had really not sought God's guidance in this situation, but fortunately for David, God was still at work.  Sometimes I believe that God has to work through others to keep us from doing something wrong because we are acting out our own desires or anger instead of following His will.  Verse thirty-five concludes, So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person. David took the supplies that Abigail had brought and told her to go in peace, that he had listened to what she had said.  Of course, all the Godly advice in the world is no good unless we heed it.  David could have listened to her, taken the supplies, and still have attacked Nabal, but he saw God at work in the situation and did what he knew God would want him to do.   We as Christians must always look to God for guidance and never act out of self-will and anger.  Verse thirty-six states, And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.  When Abigail returned to Nabal, he was having a party and was very drunk, so she didn't tell him what she had done.  He might not have been willing to help David, but he was willing to indulge himself.  His heart was merry because he was drunk.  People still are sometimes more willing to indulge themselves in earthly pleasures than they are to help others.  Verse thirty-seven adds, But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.  The next morning, when Nabal was sober, Abigail told him what she had done, and it says his heart died within him and he bacame as a stone.  He should have been grateful to Abigail for what she had done to spare his life, but he fell deeper into despair instead.  Verse thirty-eight continues, And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.  We are told that about ten days later, God smote Nabal and he died.  God has the ability to kill all our enemies, but I believe that as a general rule, He expects us to reach out to them with His love and mercy, and I do know that they will never die without having an opportunity to repent and accept the salvation that Jesus Christ makes available.