Samuel

I have been waiting to read Samuel! The story of Samuel, Saul and David is one that i like very much. The story is so awesome! I really like it a lot. The story really encapsulates all the elements of humanity into 1. We have rebellion against God(Saul) and we have David(Valour and Courage). Then we also have the story of Samuel where He follows God faithfully. 

Here we see the 3 persons paths are crossed by the one God. He turned away from Saul and towards David, who will become His successor. To me Saul was like the smarty pants. He had a attitude like "yay, God anointed me king. Now i make the calls. I decide everything." It was shown as during one of his battles, he was supposed to wait for Samuel to come to sacrifice offering to the Lord. But he was impatient and made the offering himself. Then was the part where he fought a battle and Samuel commanded Him (as God commanded him) to kill everything. Not a single living thing to be standing. Yet he did not listen, He kept the best of the flock to be sacrificed to the Lord. Then Samuel was exceedingly angry with Saul.

16 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king.”

² But Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears about it, he will kill me.”
The Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’ ³ Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what to do. You are to anoint for me the one I indicate.”

Now this is the beginning of the new King David who will be anointed by Samuel by God. David was a no body and God made him somebody in an instant! that is so amazing! God can bring down and exhalt anyone in a passing moment. Just in a passing moment. How glorious is the LORD!

³² David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”

David had such courage!
But...

³³ Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”

Dont ever let people belittle you! For you have God with you. The victory is already won.
 
³⁴ But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, ³⁵ I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. ³⁶ Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. ³⁷ The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”
Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you.”

So Awesome reading this story again! 

Killed. 


⁵⁷ As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with David still holding the Philistine’s head.
⁵⁸ “Whose son are you, young man?” Saul asked him.
David said, “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem.”

An awesome story of courage! Praise the Lord! :D