Abigail's Action

                  Will It Do Any Good?

1 Samuel 25:18-19 

“Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you.”

When Abigail heard what had happened with Nabal and David, she knew immediately what she could and should do. But she didn't know for sure that it would do any good. She didn't know how David would react or if her idea would work. That didn't stop her! She made haste and did a good job of it.

Her idea did work! But she didn't know that it was going to at the time.

What if she had thought, “David might not listen to me. I'm just a woman. It probably wouldn't do any good anyway. He's so angry, nothing I can do will help?”

What if she hadn't done anything?

She knew the right thing to do and so she did it.

But it doesn't always seem that simple to us, does it? Sometimes we know of something we should and could do. Maybe it's trying to help someone, sharing the Gospel with someone, giving out a tract, warning someone who's going astray etc. But we don't know if it will do any good. 'They probably wouldn't listen anyway.' 'They'll never change.' 'It wouldn't do any good.' We use these as reasons not to do it.

Well, maybe they wouldn't listen, but maybe they would! Maybe it wouldn't do any good, but maybe it would! And we will never know unless we try, of course!

I was giving out tracts once. I remember seeing one person and thinking 'That person wouldn't want one.' But I decided to offer him one anyway, and guess what? He took it!

You just never know.

The Bible says in James 4:17 “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”

We should do it because it's the right thing to do!