Tag: Michal

Just thinking about Michal today. I found it interesting that in 2 Samuel chapter 6, she wasn’t identified as David’s wife, but as “Saul’s daughter.”

Maybe the author didn’t mean anything significant by that. After all, he often referred to Jonathan as “Saul’s son.”

Still, being David’s friend is not the same as being his wife. In Genesis, it talks about a man leaving father and mother and being joined to his wife. In the same way, a woman leaves her father and mother and is joined to her husband. (Genesis 2:24)

Yet only three times is Michal called “David’s wife,” while eight times she’s referred to as “Saul’s daughter.”

In chapter 6, she is identified twice as Saul’s daughter, which seems very appropriate since she is thinking very much like her father did.

She was far more interested in what people thought than pleasing God. (1 Samuel 15:24, 30; 18:7-8, 2 Samuel 6:16, 20)

By marrying David, she should have left her old life behind, her old identity, her old way of thinking. And yet, she lived very much as a child of Saul.

In the same way by “marrying” Christ, we, God’s church, should have left our old lives, our old identity, and our old way of thinking behind.

But have we? Or do we still live as a children of this world, thinking and acting as it does?