Water Become Blood: Refusing the Gift of Devotion
David, fugitive in Adullam's cave amid Philistine occupation, languished for the well-water of his boyhood at Bethlehem's gate. Memory transfigured that simple draught into something...
This is historical examples on the cost of devotion and consecration over consumption, drawing on 2 Samuel 23:15-17.
David, fugitive in Adullam's cave amid Philistine occupation, languished for the well-water of his boyhood at Bethlehem's gate. Memory transfigured that simple draught into something radiant—cool, sweet, crystalline with the nostalgia pothos of his former innocence. Three of his mighty men, 'bound to him by loyal devotion and unselfish love,' broke through the Philistine garrison to retrieve it. But when they returned with the sparkling gift, David perceived something Maclaren captures with searing clarity: the water 'seemed to him to be dyed with blood.'…
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