Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Topic: Safety is of the Lord 15
Reading: 1Sam 23:7-14, 1Sam 18
Scripture: And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars. (1Sam 23:7)
Note: Saul was mortally wounded by the splendiforous praise and appellations all in honour of David. This wrong perception of Saul borne out of mere suspicion and envy of what David had just achieved in the battlefield in the unlikely and unbelievable victory over Goliath, was to turn out to be a wound that Saul never recovered from until his demise at the hands of his perennial enemy, the Philistines.
Saul’s wounds were self inflicted. His carnal approach to issues confronting him was the main problem that eventually cost him his life, his throne and the death of Jonathan, his natural successor to the throne. Saul was a man whose predisposition to act and respond to issues based on his senses, feelings and emotions, was to witness the king trying fruitlessly and dejectedly to save his throne, not just for himself but for his son, Jonathan, as well.
Saul slammed the door to God on himself when he missed his moment with God. All he did was to shed remorseful tears when Samuel broke the news to him of his rejection by God. Saul never explored the option of seeking forgiveness and restoration from God. It wasn’t necessary to him. All the favour that Saul desired from Samuel was to let him look good as usual in the sight of the people. Saul was only concerned with his external appearance before the people.
To Saul, the God aspect of his rejection was inconsequential, as it was not visible to the sight of the people. So long as he continued to enjoy people power, praises and appellations, God remained irrelevant so far as he was concerned. To Saul, once his approval ratings were high among the people, he could always deal with God’s choice and purposes using state power, influence and machinery.
Food for thought: The error in Saul’s folly was the resort to the use of state power and resources to fight the purposes of God. That was embellishment of insanity.
Declaration: There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. (Proverbs 16:25)
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
