Seize the Moment – Day 751

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07
Apr '22

Seize the Moment – Day 751

Posted on Apr 7, 2022 by Jerry Ingalls in Devotions, General |

07
Apr '22
 

The Importance of Obedience!

1 Samuel 15

 

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, April 7.

 

Have you ever delayed a job to such a point that even if you did finally get around to it, it would no longer matter?  It was too late; delayed obedience is no obedience at all, it is disobedience. The same is true with getting a job half done. When you send your kids to clean their room and an hour later there has been more playing than cleaning and the room is only part-way clean, would you consider that obedience? Neither does God!

 

Samuel’s final confrontation of Saul is precipitated by the king’s disobedience to God’s command. Saul was tasked with the utter destruction of the Amalekites, but 1 Samuel 15:9 tells the whole story,
 
“But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to destroy them utterly; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.”

 

When confronted with his disobedience, Saul stated that he had been obedient and then gave reasons why what he did was right – he justified his actions as right in his own eyes. To Samuel, that would have been very reminiscent of the time of the Judges, and he knew that this could not be tolerated; it would lead to the loss of everything. Samuel then spoke these dramatic and eternal words in verses 22-23:

 

Has the Lord as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king.

 

Seize the moment and offer yourself to God as a living sacrifice by obeying His Word today!

God bless you!
 
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