In response to all of God‘s mercies described in the first 11 chapters, we are to present our bodies and be renewed in our minds.
Our little work of accepting each other in the church is part of the big work God is doing in the world.
Although the Kingdom of God started imperceptibly small, it will cover and fill the whole earth.
The opposite results of David’s and Saul’s desperate measures hold lessons about how to live in the world while not being of the world.