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<\/a> <\/p>King David had just crossed over the top of the hill and had not gone very far when Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came rushing out to meet him.<\/p>\n
Ziba had two donkeys all saddled up and ready to go. The donkeys were carrying quite a bit of food:<\/p>\n
200 loaves of bread
\n100 raisin cakes
\n100 cakes made from summer fruit
\nA skin of wine<\/p>\n
David took one look and thought, \u201cWhat in the world is this guy doing here with all this stuff?\u201d<\/p>\n
So David asked Ziba,<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you doing here? What\u2019s all this food for?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ziba quickly answered,<\/p>\n
\u201cMy king, the two donkeys are for your family to ride. The bread and fruit are for the young men to eat. And the wine is for people to drink when they get worn out in the wilderness.\u201d<\/p>\n
David thought, \u201cWell, this guy sure knows how to show up at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then David asked,<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is your master Mephibosheth? Why didn\u2019t he come?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ziba immediately answered,<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, my king, he didn\u2019t come. He\u2019s still back in Jerusalem!\u201d<\/p>\n
David asked,<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s he doing there?\u201d<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s when Ziba started telling on his master.<\/p>\n
He said,<\/p>\n
\u201cMy king, he doesn\u2019t really have your back. He said, \u2018Today the people of Israel will give my father\u2019s kingdom back to me!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
When David heard this, his heart sank.<\/p>\n
David was already running for his life. His own son Absalom had rebelled against him, Jerusalem had fallen into Absalom\u2019s hands, and David was going through one of the hardest moments of his life.<\/p>\n
Then Ziba came along and basically told him:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think Mephibosheth is on your side? He\u2019s just sitting there waiting for you to lose everything so he can get his grandfather Saul\u2019s kingdom back!\u201d<\/p>\n
David didn\u2019t stop to investigate the whole thing.<\/p>\n
He simply said,<\/p>\n
\u201cFine. If that\u2019s what Mephibosheth is thinking, then everything that belongs to him is yours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ziba immediately bowed down before the king and said,<\/p>\n
\u201cI bow before my lord the king! If I can find favor in your eyes, that\u2019s all I need.\u201d<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s the thing:<\/p>\n
Later, it turned out that Ziba\u2019s story was not the whole truth.<\/p>\n
Ziba took advantage of David\u2019s difficult situation. He brought a bunch of supplies to show his loyalty, but at the same time, he threw his own master under the bus.<\/p>\n
David was running for his life. He was under enormous pressure and didn\u2019t have time to investigate everything carefully. So he believed what Ziba told him.<\/p>\n
And this gives us a lesson we can all understand:<\/p>\n
When life gets really hard, it\u2019s easy to believe whatever people tell us.<\/p>\n
So we need to slow down and be careful.<\/p>\n
Hearing someone\u2019s story doesn\u2019t automatically mean the story is true.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcac Discussion Question<\/p>\n
If you were David, would you have believed Ziba\u2019s words? Why or why not?<\/p>\n
Have you ever experienced a situation where you heard only one side of a story and later discovered that there was more to the truth?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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