God's Anointed vs. God's Anointed

Should God’s anointed attack God’s anointed?  Even though the bible was written thousands of years ago, God’s word doesn’t change.   In our times, we see a lot of Christians attacking one another.  There are ministries that delight in exposing other pastors or any other prominent members of the body of Christ.  As I see these things, I often wonder: Is it ever alright to attack God’s anointed? Just because I am saved, does that give me the right to attack my brothers and sisters in the faith?  Well, there are scriptures and great illustrations about this topic in the holy bible.  I will like to briefly discuss the story of David and Saul.  Saul was the first king of Israel.  Israel wanted to be like other nations and asked God for a king.  God angrily obliged his people and made Saul the king.  God also warned his people that Saul would be very treacherous.  Nonetheless, Saul was anointed king.  Years later, Saul disobeyed God; in turn God decided that he was going to make a little Shepherd boy by the name of David the next king of Israel.  In other words God was taking the kingdom away from Saul.  Long story short, Saul got jealous and sought to kill David.   David was able to flee from Saul’s wrath each time.  But, there came a time that David was able to get close to Saul; David secretly cut off a part of Saul’s robe.  David could have killed Saul, but realized that Saul was God’s anointed.  Boy was David wise! David was anointed as well, but he realized that the anointed couldn’t attack the anointed.   Saul hated and persecuted David without a cause; but David knew that he couldn’t touch this wicked man.  Though Saul’s heart had turned towards evil, the fact still remained that he was God’s anointed.   In the end, Saul’s treachery caught up with him.  Saul took his own life.  David hands were clean of Saul’s blood.  What am I getting at? We as Christians need to be more chaste at our mouths and point of views. Biblically God isn’t pleased with us attacking one another.  The world is assigned to persecute the church.  When we began turning against one another, we have now taken on the very characteristic of the ‘evil one.’  As long as the devil can keep us fighting against one another, we will never take the time to pray and cover one another.  This is not to excuse anyone’s sin, but we must allow God to do the exposing, and we do the covering.  The bible tells us ‘Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.’ 1 Peter 4:8.   We need to get back to the basics and start loving one another the way that Christ loves his church.  These days we allow the media to tell us what our stance should be within the body of Christ.  The bible is our standard, and the bible warns us to cover the naked.  In regards to those saved folks that are doing evil in the sight of God; remember just like Saul they will have their day.   But God still commanded us to not ‘Touch his anointed nor do his prophets any harm!’  (1Chronicles 16:22).  Remember this the next time you are tempted to attack or blog about a brother or sister in the faith.  

Other Scriptures that were used:

Story of David and Saul: 1 Samuel 19- 1 Samuel 31