I can't help but read this chapter and see the strong similarities to last November's election. We, as a nation, are getting what we, as a nation, asked for. God is absent in our election process, and it shows!
Verses 19-20, "But the people refused to listen to Samuel. 'No!' they said. 'We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.'"
We want someone else to fight our battles. We want someone else to go out and take the heat for the mistakes and the decisions that we have made. Why? I don't know, but I know I do this too. It just seems so much easier to have this kind of attitude over faith and obedience to God. The truth is, God wants to fight our battles. God wants to protect us. God wants to display the fullness of His love and mercy into our lives. We choose to send someone else who can't do any of that. We get out of it exactly what we put into it.
3 But his sons did not walk in his ways. They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice.
This is our world today. The divorce rate is sky high, the economy is crashing because of all the greedy people in the world, the internet and tv is filled with many types of perversion, and the judges of todays society tend to lean toward the unsaved.
It makes me wonder how many times a day God sits and cries over all this unjustice. It breaks my heart to see and hear it, I can only image how much more intensified it is for our Father.
Lord, if I can help in anyway, please show me. I am sorry for what you have to see and hear in todays world. Forgive me if I have been any part of it.
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I can't help but read this chapter and see the strong similarities to last November's election. We, as a nation, are getting what we, as a nation, asked for. God is absent in our election process, and it shows!
ReplyDeleteVerses 19-20, "But the people refused to listen to Samuel. 'No!' they said. 'We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.'"
ReplyDeleteWe want someone else to fight our battles. We want someone else to go out and take the heat for the mistakes and the decisions that we have made. Why? I don't know, but I know I do this too. It just seems so much easier to have this kind of attitude over faith and obedience to God. The truth is, God wants to fight our battles. God wants to protect us. God wants to display the fullness of His love and mercy into our lives. We choose to send someone else who can't do any of that. We get out of it exactly what we put into it.
This breaks God's heart. Forgive me, Father.
3 But his sons did not walk in his ways. They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice.
ReplyDeleteThis is our world today. The divorce rate is sky high, the economy is crashing because of all the greedy people in the world, the internet and tv is filled with many types of perversion, and the judges of todays society tend to lean toward the unsaved.
It makes me wonder how many times a day God sits and cries over all this unjustice. It breaks my heart to see and hear it, I can only image how much more intensified it is for our Father.
Lord, if I can help in anyway, please show me. I am sorry for what you have to see and hear in todays world. Forgive me if I have been any part of it.