6/1/2010
8:52:33 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Saul
is rejected by God
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 1Samuel
15:24-29
Message
of the verses: “24 ¶ Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have
sinned; I have indeed transgressed the command of the LORD and your words,
because I feared the people and listened to their voice. 25 "Now therefore, please pardon my sin and
return with me, that I may worship the LORD." 26 But Samuel said to Saul, "I will not
return with you; for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has
rejected you from being king over Israel." 27 As Samuel turned to go, Saul seized the edge
of his robe, and it tore. 28 So Samuel
said to him, "The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and
has given it to your neighbor, who is better than you. 29 "Also
the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that
He should change His mind.’”
Latter on in 1Samuel, Samuel will
go and anoint David as king and God will say of him that he is a man after My
own heart, for God knows the heart, something that man doesn’t know like the
Lord knows. As stated in an earlier SD
Saul’s sin seemed pale when compared to David’s sins, yet God knew the heart of
both men and it was David whom God chose to be the next link to the coming of
the Holy One, Jesus Christ the Messiah.
In the first sinful act that was
committed by Saul God took away his dynasty, and now in this second sinful act
God took away his throne, as Saul will go to his house for a while in which he
will be depressed because of all that Saul had done, but then the Lord will
tell him to fill his flask with oil to go and anoint the next king of Israel,
David a man after God’s own heart.
Saul seems to repent from doing
wrong, yet he did not really repent as he acted like others in the Bible who
said that they had repented such as Pharaoh, Balham, and Judas.
There was an object lesson here at
the end of this section as Saul would rip the hem of Samuels robe and Samuel
would be quick to tell him that God had torn the kingdom away from Saul as he
had torn Samuel’s robe.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I’m sure
that there are times in my life when I don’t know my heart and have to surely
rely on the fact that the Lord knows my heart.
I am sorrowful whenever I sin and get discouraged when I repeat the same
sin over and over, and at times have a desire to give up because I can’t seem
to control the urgings that I go through, but I know that this is wrong and so
I get back into the fight and continue to fight with the help of the Spirit and
Word of God.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
1. Give myself to the Lord as Romans 12:1-2
state.
2. Trust the Lord to give me victory
over my enemies, the world the flesh and the devil as stated in the sixth
chapter of Ephesians.
6/1/2010
9:22:14 AM
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