8/2/2010
7:40:41 AM
SPIRITUAL
DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Saul disobeyed God’s Word
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: 1Samuel 28:7-14
Message
of the verses: “7 ¶ Then Saul said to his servants, "Seek
for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her."
And his servants said to him, "Behold, there is a woman who is a medium at
En-dor." 8 Then Saul disguised
himself by putting on other clothes, and went, he and two men with him, and
they came to the woman by night; and he said, "Conjure up for me, please,
and bring up for me whom I shall name to you." 9 But the woman said to him, "Behold, you
know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who are mediums and
spiritists from the land. Why are you then laying a snare for my life to bring
about my death?" 10 Saul vowed to
her by the LORD, saying, "As the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon
you for this thing." 11 Then the
woman said, "Whom shall I bring up for you?" And he said, "Bring
up Samuel for me." 12 When the
woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul,
saying, "Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul." 13 The king said to her, "Do not be afraid;
but what do you see?" And the woman said to Saul, "I see a divine
being coming up out of the earth." 14
He said to her, "What is his form?" And she said, "An old
man is coming up, and he is wrapped with a robe." And Saul knew that it
was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground and did homage.”
There is a lot of hypocrisy in this
section of Scripture by Saul. The Law of
the Lord spoke of what to do with people who were mediums and spiritists and it
was death. Saul was suppose to stop
these people from practicing in Israel which was the right thing to do, but now
he is looking for one because the Lord won’t answer him. He wants to talk to Samuel, but when he was
alive he did not want to talk to him. He
swears by the Lord that nothing will happen to this woman if he obeys what he
wants, but what he wants is against the Lord’s Law and even against his own
law.
Saul began his kingship in the
morning but will end it at night doing something that was totally against the
Law of the Lord. Dr. Wiersbe points out
that the book of 1Samuel is a book about the king that men wanted, a tall
handsome man who was strong physically, but weak spiritually while the book of
2Samuel is a book about a man after God’s own heart, a man who was God’s choice
to be king. The story of Saul is a sad
story indeed.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: If there
is one thing I do not want to be accused of it is being a hypocrite, for that
means that I am doing something that I said that I would not do and trying to
be someone that is not the real me. I
want my life to be pleasing to the Lord, and one of the things that I need to
do in order to follow this is to stay in God’s Word and then obey the things
that I learn from His Word.
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
Put on the
Spiritual Armor because I am in a battle each day of my life while here on
planet earth.
2.
Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
3.
Continue to learn contentment.
4.
Give myself to the Lord for worship and service as a
living sacrifice.
8/2/2010 8:01:19 AM
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