(Lo Debar (or Lo-debar) is a town only mentioned a few times in Scripture. Debar normally means “word” or “thing.” The prefix lo is a negator; thus, the term Lo Debar would mean “no word” or “no thing.” The town’s name is not complimentary. The name may or may not have been an apt description of the town. If it was an apt description, it may have been lacking good pasture, or it may have been an insignificant, “nothing town.” In English we might say that it was “in the middle of nowhere.”
Lo Debar is first mentioned in connection with Mephibosheth, the only surviving son of Jonathan, son of King Saul. David wanted to show kindness to Jonathan’s family, and he was told that Mephibosheth was living in Lo Debar. The story is found in 2 Samuel 9. Mephibosheth leaves “Nothingville” (Lo Debar) and moves into the king’s residence in Jerusalem—from Podunk to palace). -{ https://www.gotquestions.org/Lo-Debar-in-the-Bible.html}
(9: 1 And David said, “Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?” 2 Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David. And the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” And he said, “I am your servant.” 3 And the king said, “Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?” Ziba said to the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet.” 4 The king said to him, “Where is he?” And Ziba said to the king, “He is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.” 5 Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar. 6 And Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and paid homage. And David said, “Mephibosheth!” And he answered, “Behold, I am your servant.” 7 And David said to him, “Do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always.”
8 And he paid homage and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog such as I?”
9 Then the king called Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s grandson. 10 And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce, that your master’s grandson may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth your master’s grandson oshall always eat at my table.” Now Ziba had qfifteen sons and twenty servants. 11 Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so will your servant do.” So Mephibosheth oate at David’s1 table, like one of the king’s sons. 12 And Mephibosheth had a young son, rwhose name was Mica. And all who lived in Ziba’s house became Mephibosheth’s servants. 13 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for ohe ate always at the king’s table. Now lhe was lame in both his feet.)
Mephobosheth defined himself as a cripple and probably must have blamed his desperate past ( 2 Samuel 4: 4And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth ).
We blame our selves, our parents, our spouses, our kids or our lot thus quitting on GOD, becoming hopeless and depressed. Often the tired masses find no relief, attempting to commit suicide inorder to escape their misery !
However the King defines MEPHIBOSHETH AND YOU AND ME by a covenant !! The covenant he made with Jonathan! Mephobosheth was called a son of the king and made to sit and dine with him. His Covenant made him ROYALTY !! LET US THEREFORE NOT MASQUERADE AS COMMONERS ! Despite our choices of the past, our DESTINY is GREATER than our DISASTER!! This is forever true ! Because of the Covenant with our Lord Jesus Christ ( Jonathan ) we cripples are offered a place in a new dimension.
WE ARE NOT TO REGARD OUR PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE, WE ARE NOT TO HEED THE NEGATIVE WORDS OF THE PEOPLE AROUND US, WE ARE ONLY TO UNDERSTAND THAT GOD LOOKS AT US IN A NEW LIGHT- THE LIGHT OF HIS SON AND GAZE ON HIM ALONE. His HOLY SPIRIT is our ETERNAL COMPANION bringing us closer to the SON who is TRULY AFFLICTED in ALL our AFFLICTIONS !
We are therefore Covenant kids ! PURCHASED by His Blood. No longer Cripples/SLAVES to people /circumstances at the paradoxical " Beautiful Gate" but freely able to run , walk , sing and dance in the Spirit as TRUE WORSHIPPERS !
Let us therefore leave LO DEBAR and abide with the HIGH KING, no more "DEBARRED " but ETERNALLY BETHROTHED dining at the KING'S TABLE before our very enemies where GOODNESS & MERCY flows everlastingly !! AMEN! :-)
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