The LORD decided to settle accounts with the Amalekites for opposing
the Israelites when they came from Egypt.
So, He sent Saul on a mission to go and utterly destroy the sinners,
the Amalekites; and fight against them until they were consumed.
Saul mobilized his army and sent warning to the Kenites to move away
from the Amalekites , since they showed kindness to the Israelites when they
came from Egypt. and the Kenites cleared
the place.
Then Saul slaughtered the Amalekites and captured Agag, the
Amalekite king, and spared his life and kept the best of the cattle and everything,
in fact, they destroyed only what was worthless or of poor quality.
God felt sorry for making Saul king, since
refused to obey his command. (1 Samuel 15:10)
Samuel was so deeply moved when he heard this and he cried out to
the LORD all night.
He said to Saul that, though Saul dint have confidence and was small
in his own eyes, before the Lord made him head of the tribes of Israel and
anointed him as king over Israel, yet Saul did not carefully listen and obey.
(1 Samuel 15:17)
But Saul defended that he obeyed the Lord and brought king Agag and
destroyed the Amalekites. But the people only took from the spoil to sacrifice
to the Lord .
But Samuel said, because he rejected the word of the Lord, He also
has rejected Saul as king.
Then Saul realised that he had sinned and transgressed the
commandment of the Lord and Samuel's words, because he feared the people and
obeyed their voice rather than God's.
To
Ponder:
Many times we also become people pleasers rather than God pleasers.
We forget what God did for us in the past. When things go well in
life we take God for granted and people become valuable in our eyes. We respect
their words and start compromising on God's words.
Let Saul's life be a warning to not be easy going or careless about
God's words!!!
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