Saul Lost His Honor as described in 1 Sam. 31:8-10; 1 Chron. 10:8-10

8/7/2010 9:45:47 PM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                                                                              Focus:  Saul lost his honor

Bible Reading & Meditation                         Reference:  1Sam. 31:8-10; 1Chron. 10:8-10

            Message of the verses:  “8 It came about on the next day when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. 9 They cut off his head and stripped off his weapons, and sent them throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people. 10 They put his weapons in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. 

            “8   It came about the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. 9 So they stripped him and took his head and his armor and sent messengers around the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to their idols and to the people. 10 They put his armor in the house of their gods and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.”

            What happened to Saul and his sons was very humiliating to them even thought they were dead, and it was  humiliating to the rest of Israel to see what these Philistines had done to their king and his sons.  They were not given a proper burial and this was sacrilegious to the children of Israel.

            I suppose that this was something that even the nation of Israel would have done had they gotten the victory over the Philistines for that is what Samuel did to the king of the Amalekites when he killed him by cutting off his head.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I suppose that this makes me think of John the Baptist and how he was killed and Jesus said of him that there wasn’t a greater man born of woman that him so this must not have much to do with how Saul lived out his life even though his life was not a life that I would want to pattern my life after.

My Steps of Faith for Today:

1.       To have my heart searched by the Holy Spirit for unconfessed sin. 

2.      To be protected by the spiritual armor.

3.      To continue to learn contentment.

4.      To seek the Lord to guide my path today.

5.      To give myself to the Lord for worship and service today.

6.      To trust the Lord with the decisions that I must make on whether or not to stay at GBC.

7.      To trust the Lord to heal our church of it’s problems.

8/7/2010 10:00:42 PM