King David said these words when he met with Jonathan, Saul's son. David saw such hatred in the king's eyes and understood that he was ready to take his life. That terrible feeling only grew. How could Saul have been so jealous of David, the young man who had removed the shame that the Philistines had brought upon Israel through the presumptuous and affronting Goliath (1 Samuel 17)? Many people today have acted like that! 

           In one of His teachings, the Lord explained what happens to those who are delivered from an unclean spirit, but are not filled with the presence of God: Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of this man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation (Matthew 12:45). Anyone who doesn't accept Heaven's decisions falls into the devil's hands.

           David spoke of his covenant with Jonathan mediated by the Most High. We need to covenant in a similar way, because those who are in covenant with the Lord will never betray their friend, their spouse or their business partner. Whoever ventures to break what has been agreed will pay dearly in life and, after death, will suffer eternal loss. As for the offended and ashamed, all they have to do is cry out to God to do something about the violator of the covenant.

           Someone who has decided to break the marriage covenant, if they don't repent or go to their spouse to confess everything, will suffer the consequences of that act (Matthew 5:25,26). The fact that an offense has expired does not exempt the person who committed it from acknowledging it. In the law of men, there is usually a expiration period for the right to punish, but not in God's law. No one who has made someone suffer will go unpunished (Galatians 6:7,8).

         he Word is clear in saying that there are ten groups who will inherit eternal torment: Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6: 9,10). Mercy! The God of the Covenant cannot be mocked (Galatians 6:7). Take care not to remain in sin!

           David was innocent, which is why he asked Jonathan to kill him right there if he had betrayed or harmed the king. David had never wished anything bad for the Lord's anointed, but out of pure jealousy and malice, Saul pursued him with deadly hatred. Why didn't the king repent? Why are there Christians suffering so much and not confessing to whom they have allied themselves? They need to make a decision, because God will act!

           They had entered into a covenant with the Lord and, of course, the wrong party would pay the price. Saul lost his life in the battle against the Philistines, and three of his sons died too. Jonathan himself died alongside his father (1 Samuel 31:1-4). They could have had a happy ending. What about you?

           In Christ, with love,

           R. R. Soares