Reading
SAA Notes
Saul starts his messiahship with a feast to the Lord (ch.9) and finishes using necromancy. Saul is religious, but he has never had a close relationship with God. He tries to talk to the dead Samuel, rather than the living Lord. Can you and I avoid Saul’s error?
SJA Notes
* Faithful God, blessed are You, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.
“And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him,”
The LORD did not answer Saul.
What Saul does after this is not the action of repentance at the Lord’s silence. He doesn’t come in humility before God seeking forgiveness.
Instead Saul does what he always does, repeating the same pattern of seeking out the solution of his own means, using his own wisdom.
Saul is mired in foolishness.
This is a stark witness to us about how we make decisions, what wisdom should be to us, and also of what Jesus has done and is doing for us.
Because the Lord does answer His people.
He did answer in the act of sacrifice and love at the cross.
And He does answer as we walk this road, listening to Him, talking with Him, sometimes even crying out to Him with groans that cannot be made into words.
* Dear Heavenly Father,
Please guide our steps, Your word as the lamp for our feet.
Please write Your word on our hearts.
That we might be good soil and bear much fruit.
Amen.