Bible Question:
How would you characterize Davids mental acuity? |
Bible Answer: Cher, since no one else yet has attempted to grapple with your question, I'll rush in where my angelic forum friends may have feared to tread :-). Their reluctance may have been occasioned, as is mine, by your use of the term "mental acuity" in regard to the characteristics of David. If by "mental acuity" you mean to inquire about King David's natural intellectual equipment -- his I.Q. if you will -- then I think it would be a fair assumption to say that, in view of what the Bible reveals about him, one could guess that he was rather a bright fellow, albeit perhaps not so bright as his son, Solomon. But the Bible does not seem to place nearly so much importance on "mental acuity" as it does on spiritual discernment, i.e., matters of the heart, of character, of obedience to God. Neither King David nor, later, his son, King Solomon, for all their natural gifts and wisdom, were immune to falling prey to the same lusts of the flesh that are common to all mankind. It was true in their day, and is true still, that no amount of "mental acuity" can save us from sin or deliver us from our sin nature. Only the redemptive act of Christ's shedding of his blood on the cross can do that. So who, in the perspective of God's order of priorities, has the most prized "mental acuity": the "brilliant" Ph.D. professor, cloistered in the ivy halls of academia, who scoffs at the very idea of God -- or the lowly, unlettered laborer who knows Christ and has committed his life to Him? It is our willingness to submit our lives to Christ and to follow Him that defines the only real "mental acuity" that, in the great scheme of things, is worth a row of pins. --Hank |
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