{"id":165,"date":"2014-03-17T12:03:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T16:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=165"},"modified":"2021-07-08T21:46:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T01:46:17","slug":"if-we-were-a-bible-character-nabal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2014\/03\/17\/if-we-were-a-bible-character-nabal\/","title":{"rendered":"If We Were a Bible Character – Nabal"},"content":{"rendered":"

If we were a Bible character; our life, men had read.<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the pages of Scripture, just what would be said?<\/strong><\/p>\n

If God were writing our profile today,<\/strong><\/p>\n

To record in His Word; just what would it say?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We read God’s description of Nabal in the same verse where we read his wife, Abigail’s, description last week:<\/p>\n

“Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.”\u00a0 I Samuel 25:3<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

What a sad way to be known by God! When I read this husband\/wife description, I often wonder how Abigail was able to maintain her godly testimony with a “churlish” (rude; surly; austere; sullen; rough in temper; unfeeling; uncivil, selfish; narrow-minded; avaricious) husband.\u00a0 To me, it\u00a0is an example of the wonderful grace of God!\u00a0 No matter what circumstance we may face, when we are totally relying on God’s strength and not our own, His grace is all-sufficient!<\/p>\n

“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”\u00a0 II Corinthians 12:9<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

~ Rachel ~<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If we were a Bible character; our life, men had read. From the pages of Scripture, just what would be said? If God were writing our profile today, To record in His Word; just what would it say? We read God’s description of Nabal in the same verse where we read his wife, Abigail’s, description last week: “Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.”\u00a0 I Samuel 25:3 What a sad way to be known by God! When I read this husband\/wife description, I often wonder how Abigail was able to maintain her godly testimony with a “churlish” (rude; surly; austere; sullen; rough in temper; unfeeling; uncivil, selfish; narrow-minded; avaricious) husband.\u00a0 To me, it\u00a0is an example of the wonderful grace of God!\u00a0 No matter what circumstance we may face, when we are totally relying on God’s strength and not our own, His grace is all-sufficient! “And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”\u00a0 II Corinthians 12:9 ~ Rachel ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-2F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11337,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/11337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}