2 Samuel 1

January 25, 2021

Jeff Harrington

When someone dies...how do we evaluate their life...how do we encapsulate it? Do we consider it as a whole? Or should we focus on the last few years? Or if their life ended badly do we only remember the early years? I think of this whenever I read an obituary...where a person’s entire life is summed up in a few paragraphs. Do these few paragraphs really give us the essence of the person who has passed? David is faced in today’s text with the dilemma of how to remember Saul? Where should his focus be? On Saul’s unjustifiable and unnecessary pursuit and persecution...or on Saul being the father of his best friend?