DAY 103 Read 1 Samuel 15 and 16; Psalm 23.
Today's reading: Saul's second great sin of open disobedience results in his turning from the Lord. God then indicates His choice of a shepherd boy to be the next king.
Memory gem: "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams" (1 Samuel 15:22).
Thought for today:
Consider the story of Saul from 1 Samuel 15--you all know it. God said, "Don't keep anything taken from the wicked Amalekites; none of their cattle, sheep, silver, gold--nothing." Saul goes. He keeps some of the best--he keeps this; he keeps that. He comes back. Samuel, the prophet, asks, "What does this mean, the bleating of the sheep? What did God tell you?"
Saul answers, "But, you see, to help God, I just kept some of the best stuff to offer, to put in the church collection. See? I am going to give it to God. That purifies it, giving it to God!" Not when you disobey God to get it, my friends.
When God eventually departed from Saul, he went--as many thousands have done; as one of my own relatives did--from a spiritualist's seance to a suicide's grave out on those dark hills of Gilboa, where he fell upon is sword when the Philistine archers pressed him in the heat of battle. Yes, my friends, God means what He says. "The way of transgressors is hard'' (Proverbs 13:15).
Today's reading: Saul's second great sin of open disobedience results in his turning from the Lord. God then indicates His choice of a shepherd boy to be the next king.
Memory gem: "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams" (1 Samuel 15:22).
Thought for today:
Consider the story of Saul from 1 Samuel 15--you all know it. God said, "Don't keep anything taken from the wicked Amalekites; none of their cattle, sheep, silver, gold--nothing." Saul goes. He keeps some of the best--he keeps this; he keeps that. He comes back. Samuel, the prophet, asks, "What does this mean, the bleating of the sheep? What did God tell you?"
Saul answers, "But, you see, to help God, I just kept some of the best stuff to offer, to put in the church collection. See? I am going to give it to God. That purifies it, giving it to God!" Not when you disobey God to get it, my friends.
When God eventually departed from Saul, he went--as many thousands have done; as one of my own relatives did--from a spiritualist's seance to a suicide's grave out on those dark hills of Gilboa, where he fell upon is sword when the Philistine archers pressed him in the heat of battle. Yes, my friends, God means what He says. "The way of transgressors is hard'' (Proverbs 13:15).
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