David Journal

Tag: 1 Samuel

  • The sons of Jesse

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    What was it about the older sons of Jesse that the Lord did not choose them? The Lord looked in their hearts and chose David but I wonder why. Did he see in them an element of unfaithfulness to the Lord or was it something more mundane like timidity? Were they more susceptible to the…

  • Samuel mourned for Saul

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    After Saul had repeatedly ignored the instructions of the Lord that Samuel delivered I don’t thing Samuel was surprised that Saul was rejected and yet he mourned for Saul. That is evidence of his genuine love for a son of God who had lost his way.

  • Give them what they want

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    God didn’t fight the unrighteous desire of the people. He let them have a king and he selected one who was surely the kind of man the perks would have chosen (tall, strong, etc.) So there is no way they could say that Samuel sabotaged them.

  • The voice of the Lord

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    The words of 1 Samuel 3:7 really struck me as I read tonight: Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him. 1 Samuel 3:7 They made me think of Mariah who is as yet unfamiliar with the Lord or His voice. I talked to her…

  • Eli’s weakness

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    I don’t know if we consistently recognize the magnitude of Eli’s personal failing. We may think that his counsel to his sons against making the people transgress was all he could do with grown sons but it’s clear that he could have and should have done more. What example would he have been seeing if…

  • Where do you face?

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    When we sorrow we would do well to turn towards the Lord like Hannah rather than turning away—sabonetes Him on the pretext that we feel abandoned.

  • Abandoned

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    Saul refused to heed the Lord until the Lord would no longer answer when he sought answers. In his frustration Saul was willing to further break the laws of God to get answers but the answers he got from the spirit of Samuel were anything but comforting.

  • No scruple

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    It’s amazing to watch how Saul givens by whim instead of law and that nothing is beyond him if he so chooses. He even had accounted priests killed for helping David. Clearly he was making no attempt by then to follow the Lord

  • (Dis)obedience and responsibility

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    When Samuel have Saul a command from the Lord Saul did something similar to what he commanded but changed the command to what seemed good to him. When Samuel came to him, Saul declared that he had been obedient. Partial obedience that declares itself as obedience is disobedience. When Samuel questioned what Saul had done…

  • Reluctant

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    Saul was reluctant to be made king when Samuel anointed him to the point that he his when Samuel came to skinny him publicly. Similarly Samuel had been reluctant to give the people a king. Not surprising is that there were men of Israel week were reluctant to accept Saul as their king at first.…