Day 87 | 1 Samuel 25–27 — Not Every Voice Is Wise — Abigail’s Intervention and David’s Wilderness Drift | Bible in a Year

No captain steers a ship alone — someone else is always feeding him the corrections he can't see for himself. One insulted messenger is all it takes for David to reach for his sword and nearly slaughter an entire household over wounded pride. Abigail rides out and talks him down before it's too late. Later, with Saul asleep again, David rejects a voice that sounds reasonable but doesn't sound like God, and by the end of the reading, exhausted and hopeless, he finally stops asking anyone at all.Here we consider counsel, restraint, discernment, despair, and the danger of every persuasive voice that isn't God's.