1Samuel 8
So as sit here reading my word my heart just breaks at how Israel rejected God. Can you imagine how God must have felt? It made me just want to yell at the them and say; you guys couldn't see that you already had a King? You can't see how far the Lord has brought you, all the way from bondage in Egypt across the Red Sea making a way out of no way? You cant see that?? Then the Holy Spirit reminded me, that's how many of us treat God to this day or have in the past. We go around searching for someone to lead us when we have had him all along. Forgetting that he would never steer us wrong and also that he has our best interest at heart. No! We forget about the things he has already done and yet seek man to lead us. I mean just take our country for example how we depend more on the government or president then on what this nation was founded on, which was on the word of God! Not just that but by man I mean anything. You might be looking to your mentor to lead you more than God, or maybe you care more about what direction your mother is giving you that you never consider going to the Father! No, not you? Well maybe you are like I was, seeking to be lead more from a knuckle head boyfriend thinking they had all the answers and could save me instead of going to my first love; the Lord. The one who has proven himself more than worthy to get my answers and be properly lead! Yet and still many of us have done this or are currently doing it were breaking Gods heart everyday all because we have a mindset just like the Israelites in v.20 "Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and go out before us and fight our battles." See the Israelites could not see they were set apart a nation like no other. They were so concerned about being like everyone else that there judgment and vision was clouded. There hearts were contaminated so much it turned there eyes from God. They started to look at the natural and the outside situations so they turned there spiritual eyes off. Had they been looking in the Spirit they would have noticed that the very thing they were asking for they already had and the very thing they were seeking a king to do God had already been doing (1Samuel7- the battle between the Philistines!) So look, I know your sister went to college because mama said, I know your mentors life seems to be perfect and everything is going great for her/him and trust me I know the feeling of seeing everyone else fall in love, get married and have babies! But the truth is you may not be getting the whole picture. You may not have seen how your sister was struggling to pay tuition, you may not fully know the hardships your mentor had to go through to get to were he/she is, and the person that your looking at married all luvey duvey you may not see the arguments that take place or the tears that are shed. The moral is to stop coveting what you don't have just because you see others have it or are doing it. In James we see that covering can also lead to fruits of the flesh such as fighting! James 4:2"You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight." Which will cause you to further act out of the will of God! Stop looking at what you can see and turn your eyes and heart back to the Father God, the one and only true King. He promises to always have your back never leaving nor forsaking you and he will fight ALL your battles!! (Deut. 31:8, Joshua 1:5)Not only that he gives you what you need and want all in due time and season. The best part is when you wait on him he will always make it worth the time you spent but if you you keep seeking what others have, he just may give it you and it may not be what you were expecting. Just look at the Israelites with Saul... The grass is not always greener! Be blessed!
