2 SAMUEL 4:4
4 Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in both feet. He
was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came
from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she hurried
to leave, he fell and became disabled. His name was
Mephibosheth.
1. Don’t become a hostage to your circumstances.
ECCLESIASTES 3:16-17 MSG
16 I took another good look at what's going on: The very
place of judgment - corrupt! 17 The place of
righteousness – corrupt!ECCLESIASTES 4:1 NLT
Again, I observed all the oppression that takes place under the
sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort
them. The oppressors have great power, and their victims are
helpless.ECCLESIASTES 7:15 MSG
I've seen it all in my brief and pointless life - here a good person
cut down in the middle of doing good, there a bad person living a
long life of sheer evil.
2. Don’t judge the end by the beginning.
2 SAMUEL 9:1-5
1 David asked, “Is there anyone still left of the house of Saul to whom I can
show kindness for Jonathan’s sake?” 2 Now there was a servant of Saul’s
household named Ziba. They summoned him to appear before David,
and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” “At your service,”
he replied. 3 The king asked, “Is there no one still alive from the house of
Saul to whom I can show God’s kindness?” Ziba answered the king, “There
is still a son of Jonathan; he is lame in both feet.” 4 “Where is he?” the king
asked. Ziba answered, “He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo
Debar.” 5 So King David had him brought from Lo Debar, from the house of
Makir son of Ammiel.2 SAMUEL 9:6-9
6 When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David,
he bowed down to pay him honor. David said, “Mephibosheth!” “At your service,”
he replied. 7 “Don’t be afraid,” David said to him, “for I will surely show you
kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the
land that belonged to your grandfather Saul and you will always eat at my table.”
8 Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog
like me?” 9 Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s steward, and said to him,
“I have given your master’s grandson everything that belonged to Saul and
his family.2 SAMUEL 9:10-11
10 You and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and
bring in the crops, so that your master’s grandson may be provided for.
And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table.”
(Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.) 11 Then Ziba said to the
king, “Your servant will do whatever my lord the king commands his
servant to do.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table like one of the king’s
sons.