5/30/2010
7:57:10 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Saul
lies to Samuel
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 1Samuel
15:12-15
Message
of the verses: “12 Samuel rose early in the morning to meet
Saul; and it was told Samuel, saying, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he
set up a monument for himself, then turned and proceeded on down to
Gilgal." 13 Samuel came to Saul,
and Saul said to him, "Blessed are you of the LORD! I have carried out the
command of the LORD." 14 But Samuel
said, "What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing
of the oxen which I hear?" 15 Saul
said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared
the best of the sheep and oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; but the rest
we have utterly destroyed.’”
I would suppose a causal reading
of this section by someone would seem to show that everything was alright with
what Saul had done. Saul was given an order
from Samuel that came directly from the Lord to go and kill all of the
Amalekites along with all that they possessed and Saul seems to change the
orders humanly speaking for what seemed to be a good cause, but in so Saul was
lying to Samuel and truly lying to the Lord.
Saul was a person who admired himself a whole lot even to the point of
building a monument for himself after this battle was over, and I suppose that
the people of Israel thought that this was a great victory given to them by
their leader, just like they had asked Samuel to give them a king who would go
out and fight for them and keep them safe.
Saul was also a person who liked to blame others for his wrong doing as
in the case where he tells Samuel that his soldiers kept the choice animals to
sacrifice them to the Lord, this was another lie.
Dr. Wiersbe advises his readers to
read 1 John 1:5-10, verses that describe how a person who has a desire to walk
with the Lord will follow, but something that Saul did not follow: “5 ¶
This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God
is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have
fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice
the truth; 7 but if we walk in the Light
as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the
blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
“8 ¶
If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth
is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins,
He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we
have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I can see
from this passage the importance of telling the truth, the importance of
confessing my sins to the Lord, and the importance of not blaming others for my
sinful behavior.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
1. Be
honest with the Lord.
2. Trust the Lord to search my heart
to see any hidden sin that has not been confessed.
3. Don’t blame others for my sinful
behavior.
5/30/2010
8:18:27 AM
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