There are two salient things to learn from this verse of scripture. First is about the eagle. In his dirge for Saul and Jonathan, David described them as being “swifter than eagles”. Eagles are known for strength, vision and swiftness. Eagles can dive from mountain top and level up with a prey on the ground or in water. The prophet Isaiah compares the experience of those who wait on the Lord with the strength of an eagle. Believers can train themselves so well that their spirit start to respond swiftly to all of God’s signal. Those who will be used of God in a mighty way must work on their ability to respond to God’s leading and promptings. 

An average person today believes that the best response to an enemy is to curse them. Jesus gave us a different approach of praying for them.

The second lesson is an inference, accounting for what made David such a phenomenon. Generally speaking, several things could reveal a man’s character, one of which is how he reacts to the misfortune of an enemy – real or imagined. Nothing revealed David’s golden heart like his emotional mourning of the demise of Saul and Jonathan in Second Samuel 1:19-27. Mourning Jonathan is understandable; we know that he worked for his safety on several occasions. However, mourning Saul, a man who persecuted him to strange lands, is something too deep for the average mind to contemplate. David celebrated Saul’s unusual carriage even in death. An average person today believes that the best response to an enemy is to curse them. Jesus gave us a different approach of praying for them.