Archive for 27. May 2009

It will be Bad for you

27. May 2009 by Bernice Davis.

Hello: 

Today in our text, Samuel gives us a prophecy of what the king that

Israel so desires would eventually become.   Let’s look at the story. 

I Samuel 9:10 Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. 12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. 16 Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. 17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. 18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the Lord will not answer you in that day.” 19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us. 20 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.” 21 When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the Lord. 22 The Lord answered, “Listen to them and give them a king.” Then Samuel said to the men of

Israel, “Everyone go back to his town.”   

As you can see from our text today,

Israel is in for trouble.  We are about to enter our journey of the monarchy.   This prophecy however will not apply to the kings of the monarchy.  Saul, David, and Solomon though they did not always do what was right they were basically good kings and treated the people fairly.  It is when the kingdom splits after the reigns of the monarchy that you will see the fulfillment of this prophecy. 

Israel now wants to trade its uniqueness to become like other nations when the thing that they crave will one day enslaved them.   Israel is now saying that God does not know what is best, we are not satisfied with the system of government that God has in place, we think the way the heathens are doing it will work better for  us, so they trade the plan of God to be like the other nations. 

Be careful about what you think is not working.   God has a plan for us and we are a unique people.  The bible calls us peculiar, holy. The word holy simply means different than the world.   We are just different and we follow different standards and guidelines for our lives. 

 

Don’t get so frustrated that you would be willing to trade God’s plan for you and begin fitting in with the world and adopting their theologies and philosophies for one day, it will turn on you.  Be not deceived, God is not mock for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.     

Isn’t it amazing that, we the creation of God, can actually think we have a better plan and solution for our lives than God.   I see it all the time, I have tried to do it my way my self.   It always ends up in disaster though in the beginning it appears to be fulfilling and working but in the end it leads to devastation and destruction.  God’s way is perfect and right and even if we are in a difficult spot right now, it is still comforting knowing that this is the will of God and that God has us here and we did not do this to ourselves.    I would rather go through difficult times with God than to have created on my own a course that will eventually only lead to destruction. 

I think the book of Hebrews pens it best where it states in chapter 11 verse 24-25  “ By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season”    

His point was that once he encountered the truth, he would rather to deal with the consequences of truth than the consequences of sin.   

Stay encouraged and don’t forget to pray and read God’s word daily. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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