The Wisdom of Abigail - An example of a Wise Woman - Preaching the Word of God

Abigail A Woman Beautiful, Generous, Wise And Full Of Virtues
Valdenira Nunes de Menezes Silva

"Abigail ... was a woman of good understanding and beautiful ... "(1 Samuel 25:3).

Abigail was a beautiful woman who loved the Lord. She was being refined as silver but patiently accepted the teachings of God. Every day, she pinned to live with a husband (Nabal) foolish, foolish and without wisdom.

Although the Bible does not report how was your job at home, we assume that she was a good housewife and a model wife. Besides these qualities that pleased God, she was still generous, intelligent and a woman peacemaker.
Watching your husband, we can see that he was a hard man and very bad. Because of the hardness of their hearts, refusing to help with food to David and his companions, he endangered his life, his family and servants.
In 1 Samuel 25:14-17 we are told that Abigail was advised of this procedure foolish of her husband. Here's how it happened:

"But one of the young men told Abigail the wife of Nabal, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master, but he destratou. However, these men have been very good to us, and we have never been worse for them, and we lacked nothing in all the days that we live with them when they were in the field. From wall around served us well for day and night, every day while we were with them keeping the sheep. Therefore consider and see what you will do, because the damage is all determined against our master and against all his house, and he is a vile man, that no one can speak to him. "1 Samuel 25 :14-17

Rich man, however foolish and senseless!
Observing these verses we can see that the relationship between Abigail and his servants was pure confidence while Nabal of them was full of mistrust.

As we examine our daily walk we know where we stand:
* Am I like Abigail, a woman balanced, wise and gentle heart?
* Or am I more like Nabal, a hard man in decisions, authoritative and with a callous heart?
Can I find out which side I'm watching:
How do I treat my husband? How do I treat my children? How that tract (s) of the person (s) who helps me (m) work from home?

You are a woman meek, gentle, understanding and Abigail?
Or are you a brawling woman like Job's wife?
Sister, it's up to us to decide if we want to be at the center of God's will to please Him, or if we walk with our own feet doing what is pleasing to our flesh.
Because of the insane response to Nabal, Abigail had to act quickly and wisdom in order to save the life of her husband, for all his family and their servants.
Certainly, Abigail was a woman submissive to her husband, but when she saw the big mistake he had committed, she chose to follow her heart that it was actually more submissive to God.
She spared no efforts to bring David up everything he needed and more - "... two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs ... "(1 Samuel 25:18).
Abigail took with him not only the food for David and his men but also led a humble heart. The Bible tells us in 1 Samuel 25:23 that David and Abigail went to "... bowed to the ground. And fell at his feet and said: Oh, my Lord, my transgression is: let therefore thy servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of thine handmaid. "And Abigail continued asking David not to kill her husband or anyone in your home. And God used ...

1 - a faithful woman to put into practice his plan in her life ["... and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife "(1 Samuel 25:42)];
2 - a docile woman, who spoke with a soft voice at the right time, the right words and inspired by Him ["... time to be silent and a time to speak "(Ecclesiastes 3:7)];


3 - a woman who feared ["The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom ..." (Pro 9:10];

4 - a wise woman who quickly decided it should save his family and his servants ["If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all ..." (James 1 : 5)].

You, beloved sister, a woman wants to be used by God? So start from now, praying the Lord to become a woman still, small voice of faithful, obedient, fearing Him and full of wisdom.
The Bible tells us that "... after almost ten days, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died "(1 Samuel 25:38).
With the death of Nabal, Abigail began a new life. The Lord put an end to the problems that plagued their day-to-day.
When David learned of the death of the man who defied, sent for her to be his wife. What a joy! His life now would change! She was the wife that she had rescued from committing a crime, that he was the beloved of the Lord, that it was after the heart of God. She would be the wife of David.
She, with a joyful heart and submissive, she followed the messengers of David that his wife.
The plan of God for the life of Abigail became reality. She was no longer married to a wicked man, a fool and a drunkard but God gave ...

1 - with a husband who listened and obeyed the voice of God with all your heart;


2 - with a child (the second of David) whose name, Quileade, meaning "God is my judge" (2 Samuel 3:3).
By observing the entire course of the life of Abigail, we can take lessons from a wise woman who feared the Lord (so, a wise woman, for the Bible tells us that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Psalm 111: 10)) and therefore was submissive husband to a foolish and wicked.
And you, sister, is submissive to her husband as the Bible tells us in Ephesians 5:22?
When the Word of God tells me that I must be submissive to my husband, I must be submissive independent of it being a believer or not, it is good for me or not, he is a drunkard or not.
In the biblical commandment there is no subordinating conjunction conditional IF. Lemos clearly the Lord's command without any conditions.
Sister, let's face this commandment not as a punishment for our life. We are not doormats of our husbands. We are, yes, the queen who is proud of his king, the vice principal who loves his director, the vice president who admires the president. We opine, we can talk, but leave the final decision to him and (this part is the most important) acatemos his decision as if it were our own. Put it on the altar of the Lord our heart and all our life will become easier to be seen. Let us as Abigail that probably made this decision and did not feel humiliated, but instead decided to humble himself humbly before David for saving the lives of all those she loved.
Let us each step of this woman who had the privilege of receiving future king of Israel a blessing that came out of the heart of a man who loved the Lord and was loved by him - David, the man after God's own heart.
"Then David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me. And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which today kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself with mine own hand "(1 Samuel 25:32-33).
Sister, elevate your heart and soul to the Lord and ask for wisdom and discernment in your marriage. Pray for your husband that he might be a blessing in the hands of the Lord. Forget to tell the Lord that hurts you have it and would go back just for his (her husband's) needs.
"Lord, in Thy altar receives my marriage. I and my husband can have a settled married life in You
Bless, Father, my husband.


Directs every step of it so that he can walk in ways that please Thee.
Directs the day-to-day.
Bless your relationship with our children, because often it is not easy.

Bless your relationship with me so that we can show the world that we have a God we love and who loves us despite our faults.
Bless, O Lord, especially his relationship with you. May he'll put first in your life, not allowing anything or anyone interfere with the perfect plan you have for his life.

Amen!