Samuel 13:12-14 Saul answered, "When I saw I was losing my army from under me, and that you hadn't come when you said you would, and that the Philistines were poised to attack...I hadn't yet come before God asking for help. S o I took things into my own hands, and sacrificed the burnt offering." "That was a fool thing to do," Samuel said to Saul. "If you had kept the appointment that your God commanded...God is out looking for your replacement right now." How sad. So what keeps us from missing that appointment with God this day?
I love Jonathan's faith! Saul had 600 soldiers with him. Jonathan asks his armor-bearer in I Samuel 14:6-7 to go with him to the Philistine camp. "Maybe
They killed only 20 soldiers that day, BUT they actually grew Saul's army from 600 to 10,000. That is simply amazing! God did it for Jonathan and his faithful armor-bearer. So inviting. Not for Saul though---Saul kept conscripting every strong and brave man he saw, using people.
Our 66LL devo says it this way: "When things go wrong in your life, or when you fear they might, you'll be tempted to sacrifice ethics for pragmatism." The story of Saul. "You'll hear your heart asking, what will work to make things better? You'll not as clearly hear yourself asking, what is holy in this situation that will please the Lord?"
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