2 Samuel 3:14; 6:16
Very few men would have been able to live with her. She was one those women who can’t get along with a man-any man.
She peers from the window of her palatial environment and looks with cold indifference down into the streets of the city to behold the man who is her husband. But she feels no connection with. No bond. So it was with Michal and David two people living together but not joined together.
Michal is the sad seed of a callous father who failed to walk with God. Her eyes were dulled with the disillusionment that comes from having no model of godly marriage. Her relationship with her taught her to be cynical rather than selfless, guarded rather than generous. And now marriage yield only a harvest of bitterness now arises to hunt her and ruin her chances at happily-ever-after. In fact, she is so better that she resents her husband happiness.
Almost any other woman would have been delighted to see the joy on her husband’s face, the glide in his stride, the excitement in his eyes as he returns to her, wet with the precious anointing of an encounter with God. But Michal vividly us that when a woman’s heart is better, her eyes are blind.
Michal looks out the window, but she cannot see. She cannot see that God has been given her another chance at peace and contentment. She cannot see that the man she married was in no way like the man she now beholds-that he has changed and that for the rest her life, she can enjoy the fruit of that transformation. But she’s blind, and the look she gives David is the mockery of a smile, a sneer.
It is tragedy, but it is not all Michal’s fault. Her father had failed her long before she failed David. Her father had planted that bitter root in sweet water that contaminated her perception and disrupted her peace. And now she cannot understand her husband.
I wish that all fathers knew how important it is to provide their daughters with the proper perception of masculinity. For long after the fathers are gone, the husbands will have to love with the fruit. Michal is fresh fruit gone bad, she has left a bitter taste in David’s mouth.
My sisters don’t damp your husband’s desire to dance. If God has given him joy and peace, celebrate with him! If you want to be loved and adored, you must be able to celebrate his success. If you fail to appreciate what God has given you, what you see coming in you may later see walking out because you haven’t known how to receive the man God sent back home to you.
If you are one of those lonely, bitter wives, take heart, my sister. God is a God of new beginning. If your past has limited you, shake it off because it destroys your future. And, start this day out new. The next time you see your anointed husband dancing toward you clap your hands open your doors and tell him to come on in. it’s time to celebrate!
Source: T.D. Jakes
I’m so blessed to be in a era when God himself has blessed us with anoited men and women of God that will dig into the cistern and pull out all that God has rooted in them I was so blessed by this It was preached on at Free Chapel my Church but I was on a Cruise so I miss the revelation of what God did through Pastor Jentzeen , But I believe that He has truly blessed Me through this revelation From Bishop Jakes
Bishop Jakes I came to the Potters House 2 years ago and you preached on Get the Junk out your trunk you are still a blessing then and now keep letting God use you Thnks for going through and not quitting because you have touch so many people through being birth out and Purified so thnks Bishop Jakes I will continue to keep you in my prayers and please do the same for me…..