Today’s Bible Reading:
1 Samuel 15-16, 1 Chronicles 5, Matthew 1
Journal Entry on a passage from today’s reading:
Topic: Obedience
SCRIPTURE: 1 Samuel 15:22
22 So
Samuel said:
“Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams. (1 Sam 15:22 NKJV)
“Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams. (1 Sam 15:22 NKJV)
OBSERVATION:
This verse asks and answers a question.
Question:
What does God take more delight in, sacrifices offered to
Him or obedience to what He tells us to do?
Answer:
Obedience
APPLICATION:
Why did the Israelites offer sacrifices? Because that’s what God directed them to
do. But are we to live constantly in
what God has directed us to do in the past, or in what He is directing us to do
today?
For the Israelites it wasn’t that offering sacrifices was
wrong, it was that they allowed it to take precedence over hearing the voice of
the Lord now. How much of what we do in
church today is done because that’s the way we’ve always done it? Yet, as good as those procedures may be, it
is infinitely more important to hear from and obey God today.
PRAYER:
Lord, thank You for Your directives – old and new. Help Your word to always be fresh and new;
and help me to obey and live in that word today.
Through Christ.
Amen. -AP
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