Abigail
May 7, 2021
Mother’s day sermons, talks, are sometimes pleasant, pretty, and sometimes not. I confess to not liking the talks on the Proverbs 31 lady who did it all: business success and wealth, great kids, successful respected husband. I could not compete in any of those areas. But then Bathsheba, whom supposedly the author King Solomon would have been thinking about, might not have either.
I wonder if Solomon was not more accurately describing one of his dad’s other wives, Abigail.
Like me, she was a widow, but not for long. She was everything the Proverbs 31 woman was. Read I Samuel 25. Reread it with Proverbs 31 in mind. To prevent David from killing her household, she was industrious, respected, spiritually connected, wise, diplomatic, and an initiator. There’s a woman I admire.