Time for everything!

Saul said I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering. The keywords are felt compelled. How many times do we feel certain things and do it? That is a very dangerous thing to do, when we are not led by the spirit but by our own emotions. Or own emotions may seem to have a moral compass: ie. when you see someone dying, you would feel empathic for the person and help him/her. But it really does not. What happens when one day i don't feel like helping someone in need when he really needs it? That is very scary. We all know doing right is important, but doing right at the WRONG time is not good! Or the opposite, doing wrong things with the right intentions would not work either. Similarly we see here that Saul had actually offered the Lord a burnt offering. It is good, offerings to God is holy. But he did it in the wrong time and wrong intention. Firstly, he should have waited for Samuel to come to offer the sacrifice for him. Secondly, he offered it because he "felt compelled" to do it. Those 2 points are the reason why he had violated God's word and commandments to him. Ask ourselves, do we live by the spirit or by our emotions? Today, people get into relationships and get out, so frequently. Under-age and premarital sex is commonplace. I "feel like" you are the one for me, I "feel like" doing it. This is where emotion's lack of a moral compass is evident. Ask ourselves, do we do the right thing at the right time? God says 

Ecc 3:1
There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

 A time for everything, use the time God intended to finish doing A, to do A, not B. For it is set apart!  Doing the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing. Just remember that! Walk with the spirit!!

Saul replied, “When I saw that the men were scattering, and that you did not come at the set time, and that the Philistines were assembling at Mikmash, ¹² I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.”