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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for collecting daily manna), make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Friday, April 20, 2018
Today's Passage : Today's Passage:Subjecta:Saul and the Witch of Endor - Part 2 Bible Verse:1 Samuel 28:15-24 (NLT) "“Why have you disturbed me by calling me back?” Samuel asked Saul. “Because I am in deep trouble,” Saul replied. “The Philistines are at war with me, and God has left me and won’t reply by prophets or dreams. So I have called for you to tell me what to do.” But Samuel replied, “Why ask me, since the Lord has left you and has become your enemy? The Lord has done just as he said he would. He has torn the kingdom from you and given it to your rival, David. The Lord has done this to you today because you refused to carry out his fierce anger against the Amalekites. What’s more, the Lord will hand you and the army of Israel over to the Philistines tomorrow, and you and your sons will be here with me. The Lord will bring down the entire army of Israel in defeat.” Saul fell full length on the ground, paralyzed with fright because of Samuel’s words. He was also faint with hunger, for he had eaten nothing all day and all night. When the woman saw how distraught he was, she said, “Sir, I obeyed your command at the risk of my life. Now do what I say, and let me give you a little something to eat so you can regain your strength for the trip back.” But Saul refused to eat anything. Then his advisers joined the woman in urging him to eat, so he finally yielded and got up from the ground and sat on the couch. The woman had been fattening a calf, so she hurried out and killed it. She took some flour, kneaded it into dough and baked unleavened bread. " Message:
Having visited a necromancer, Saul gets what he deserves. His guilty intrusion into the realm of the dead provokes its proportionate reprisal in Samuel’s utter rejection of his mission.
You have to wonder, what was he even thinking. The irony of the statement is heavy: “God has left me . . . . So I have called for you to tell me what to do.” Saul has offended God by disobeying Him, and when God withdraws from him, he goes out and commits another deadly sin.
Well, we see enough of this today that it shouldn’t be a surprise. How many atheists, agnostics, and semi-Christians read their horoscopes every day? People who don’t read and understand and follow the Bible resort to all kinds of self-defeating sources to try to discover who they are and what is their meaning.
The reaction of the Witch is almost funny. “Let me fix you something to eat. It will make you feel better.” Again, irony: she kills the fatted calf and makes unleavened bread, both parodies of Hebrew religious practices. She dresses up ungodly practices with religious ceremony. Saul cannot accept what God has said, so he goes out to find someone who will tell him something different. The parallel in modern life might be a “liberal” or “conservative” church inviting a “Democratic” or “Republican” political figure to give a Sunday sermon.
Meditation : Prayer : Lord, in utter humility I thank you and glorify you, that you might hear the prayer of one so small as myself, amidst the billions of souls among billions of stars in one of billions of galaxies in your universe. Let me go forth in your peace, keeping your Spirit always in my mind; and bless me, I pray, that I might always follow your will and live in the radiance of your blessing...Amen |
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