Loosing your Ministry and Calling through pride--Part 4 While Saul would be allowed to serve out the rest of his life as king, he was plagued by an evil spirit that tormented him and brought about waves of madness. Saul’s final years were profoundly tragic as he endured periods of deep manic depression. However, it was a young man brought into the king’s court named David who became the soothing influence on the troubled king by playing music which temporarily restored the king’s sanity. The king embraced David as one of his own, but all of this changed as David became a fine military leader in his own right. In fact, a popular song of the day was “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands” (1 Samuel 18:7). When Saul realized that God was with David, the king sought to kill David at every opportunity. David succeeded in evading the countless attempts on his life with the help of the king’s son, Jonathan, and the king’s daughter, Michal. The final years of King Saul’s life brought a general decline in his service to the nation and in his personal fortunes. He spent much time, energy and expense trying to kill David rather than consolidating the gains of his earlier victories, and because of this the Philistines sensed an opening for a major victory over Israel. With a large army they crushed Saul’s troops, killing all of his sons including Jonathan. In one final act of disobedience Saul takes his own life by falling on his sword, thus ending a promising life on a final note of shame. There are three lessons we can learn from the life of King Saul. First, obey the Lord and seek to do His will. From the very start of his reign, Saul had the perfect opportunity to be the benchmark by which all future kings could be measured. All he had to do was to seek the Lord wholeheartedly, obey His commandments and align his will with that of God’s, and his rule would have been a God-honoring one. However, like so many others, Saul chose a different path and strayed away from God. We find a perfect example of his disobedience in the incident where God commanded him to kill all the Amalekites, but Saul kept the king and some of the spoils of war. Saul compounded his troubles by lying to Samuel over the incident. He claimed that it was the people that saved all of the animals (1 Samuel 15). This act, plus many others over the course of his rule, emphasized the fact that he could not be trusted to be an instrument of God’s will. My dear co-workers and laborers in the Lord ,let us Becareful of lying spirit and deceitful life style. Living a double standard life--(chameleon spirit), Jesus is coming very soon. Those who use people and dumped them,I pray for them always as they have no idea how Hell looks like .When you use fabricated stories and lies to gain worldly things what profits you is hell. Gal.5:19-21 I urge you to read and ask yourself questions where you fall short and ask for forgiveness. Love and Peace JSM
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:50:47 +0000
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