READ: 1 Samuel 25:2-32
“And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, WHO IS DAVID? AND WHO IS THE SON OF JESSE? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master” – 1 Samuel 25:10
A lack of understanding makes you proud and argumentative. Abigail was a woman of good understanding. Her husband, Nabal, did not have that characteristic. She is the one who understood that David and his men were the reason why they were so prosperous and blessed. Nabal could not see the connection between David’s activities and his prosperity. She was the one who understood that they owed him something.
But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them. But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing,… Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
Then Abigail made haste, and took 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, and laid them on asses. And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them… 1 Samuel 25:14-20
People who lack understanding are ungrateful and argumentative. They will have long discussions and arguments because they simply cannot see through the maze. They do not understand how things work. They do not understand how things are achieved. Discussions do not lead anywhere. Meetings take forever. Arguments are heated and longwinded. They are like brute beasts.