Developing A Godly Relationship With MoneySample

Money Law #3: Don''t Marry the King's Daughter Before Time

One of my favorite Bible characters is David. David comes out to me as someone who was real. He did not put up a façade. He was always real to himself and before God.

One day King Saul wanted to kill him by sending him out to single-handedly kill 300 hundred Philistines. The plan was to have him killed by foreign troops so that Saul could ease his conscience not to have used his own hand to kill David. Humble David obeyed the order to go and kill the Philistines and God helped him to achieve this mission. The award attached to the mission was to marry the King’s Daughter.

When David came back from war Saul offered him his daughter but David declined. He said that he was not worthy to become the King’s son-in-law. A few years later, David became King of Israel. Strangely, one of his first instructions to his army commander was to go get his wife that Saul had offered him. 

I have always wondered why at first David refused the King’s daughter, and then when he became King one of the things he did was to take the offer that was made years back. This story reveals one of the most powerful laws of money. Don’t marry the King’s daughter before time. This simply means, “don’t live beyond your means”. Don’t use your money to buy things to show off. Only buy what you can afford. And time always comes when you can afford something, and when it does, by all means, buy it.

Most people have had a lot of financial problems because they live beyond what they earn, they have a King’s daughter for a wife but have no means to look after her. They want to show everyone that they are cool, that they are the King’s son-in-law; meanwhile, they can’t afford to maintain the king’s daughter. They end up in debt trying to impressed people who don’t even care whose son-in-law they are.

People don’t care what you drive or where you live or what label is your jeans. Don’t try to impress them. Time will come when you will be king, then you can go and get your wife. If you can afford it, why not?