Fighting God and Wrestling with Puzzlement

1 Samuel 20-21:1

I’ve always wrestled with the passages that deal with the conflict David, and especially Jonathan, had with king Saul.  Why was this written for, what direction do they give us?  I see so many things in these passages of struggle, friendship based on true trust and loyalty between two people all based on both parties trusting in God.  I also see loyalty between son to father; however, not between father and son. 

I wrestle with the person who knows their God and who maintains strong ties with those who don’t; especially when one knows one of your close relationships is trying to take out- to “kill”-someone who is godly.  Jonathan, because of his close relationship with God, knew David was God’s ordained man.  He also knew his father; the king of Israel had lost his kingly anointing to be king.  Saul was king politically, but not heavenly. 

1 Samuel 20:30-31 AMP  Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan and he said to him, You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do not I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother who bore you?  (31)  For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon the earth, you shall not be established nor shall your kingdom. So now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.

Saul was fighting against God, a losing battle; however:    

1 Samuel 13:13-14 NIV  "You acted foolishly," Samuel said. "You have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.  (14)  But now your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him leader of his people, because you have not kept the LORD's command."

Jonathan knew the will of God and accepted it. Why hang out with people, family or non-family members, who you know are fighting against the will of God? 

1 Samuel 23:16-17 NIV  And Saul's son Jonathan went to David at Horesh and helped him find strength in God.  (17)  "Don't be afraid," he said. "My father Saul will not lay a hand on you. You will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you. Even my father Saul knows this."