Category: Don’t Be A Mephibosheth

1 When David was a little past the top of the mountain, there was Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth,  who met him with a couple of saddled donkeys, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred  clusters of raisins, one hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

2 And the king said to Ziba, “What do you  mean to do with these?” So Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who are faint in the wilderness to drink.”

3 Then the king said, “And where is your master’s son?” And Ziba said to the king, “Indeed he is staying in Jerusalem, for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore the kingdom of my father to me.’”

Yesterday, we saw how King David showed kindness to Mephibosheth as a sign of Gratitude to what His father did in time past. He gave all the belonging of the house of Saul to Mephibosheth. He made his grand father’s servant, Ziba, to serve him till the day of his death, and dined on the King’s table but how did he showed his gratitude? Ingratitude.

When Absalom, David most beautify son, rose up against Him to take the throne, David ran for his life and his faithful servants followed him. Zibe, Mephibosheth servant, deem it fit to present some takeaway gift for the King’s surviver. The king was surprise by his presence without Mephibosheth. He asked after him, and Ziba said, he is preparing for the  house of Israel to make him the next King, what an insult? What an ingrate personality? He was ready to take the place of his helper, his lifter, the only one who remembered him in his lowly estate. He wasn’t satisfied with what King David gave him, he was after the throne.

You gauge what you’re being given on a platter of gold, without your demand, and see it as too little, did you worked for it? You are aiming at what belongs to your helper after helping you? Are you not the worst ingrate? Always remember where you were, where you came from before you take your actions. Mephibosheth has forgotten that, he was a forgotten issue in Israel before King David sent for him. When the king would have receive the harvest of what he sowed into his life, Mephibosheth rewarded him with the attitude of ingrate. Please, take a look at yourself, are you not another Mephibosheth? Are you not happy when things go wrong with those who helped you in the past? Are you not in the position of an ingrate to your spouse, your boss or your co-worshipper? Check where you belong this morning.