You don't have to humiliate!

I was just reading in 2 Samuel chapter 10 about an incident during the times of King David.  It seems that he sent a delegation to the Ammonites to express sympathy to Hanun concerning the death of his father.

But Hanun listened to some bad advice and treated the men as spies.  Nothing much might have happened if he had simply said "Thanks but we're not interested in having you here right now."  But instead - he took the men, shaved off half of the beard and cut their clothes off right in the middle of their buttocks and sent them home!

Needless to say - King David was ticked!  The final result of this was war and the Ammonites being defeated.

How foolish!  And yet - the desire to humiliate our enemies never seems to go away.

The next time we're tempted to embarrass someone or to hold them up to ridicule, we might want to read this account in 2 Samuel 10 once again.

Pastor John