How To Deal“So the women sang as they danced, and said: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.’ Then Saul was very angry, and the saying displeased him; and he said, ‘They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?’ ” (1 Samuel 18:7-8) In the 2003 teen movie How To Deal, Mandy Moore is a teenager disllusioned by too much of love gone wrong who refuses to believe that true love exists, and then has to deal with a sexy new guy who comes along. In the Bible, God gave us a lesson of how to deal with the success of others through the mistake of Saul, who was the first King of Israel. David was in Saul’s army and he was beginning to build a reputation as a powerful warrior. One day when David came back from
victory over the Philistines, the women danced and sang: ‘Saul
has slain his thousands, and David his tens thousands.’ (1 Samuel
18:7). Saul did not know how to deal with the popularity of David, and
he was very angry. David’s praises galled him. “They have
ascribed or credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought,
“but me with only thousands. Now what more can he have but the
kingdom?” (1 Samuel 18:8) Saul began to snap and from then on,
he was never the leader God intended for him to be. Long before Social
Security, Saul invented social insecurity. Saul allowed insecurity to
drive his every decision, and insecurity leads to the need to control
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