“Glory to the Precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ”

Psalms 119: 15

I will meditate on Your precepts and contemplate Your ways.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen

We, the bride, the church cannot forsake the law of the Lord and tell any reason.

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, we meditated that we, the bride, the church should be as those who destroy the deeds of the Philistines by the word of God. God is doing these things using Saul. The spiritual explanation of this is that we decorating ourselves with gold and silver and also considering such expensive things as god and giving them the first place in our soul and instead of our Lord Jesus Christ being our first person we give such kind of things the first place and also selecting the right day, listening to sooth saying and sooth saying itself and doing worldly worship and also giving their soul to such vain things and if such things are there in us, these are the evil deeds of the Philistines. We should destroy all these things by the word of Christ and we must put on Christ.

Next what we are meditating is that 1 Samuel 13: 4 - 8 Now all Israel heard it said that Saul had attacked a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel had also become an abomination to the Philistines. And the people were called together to Saul at Gilgal.

Then the Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth Aven. 

When the men of Israel saw that they were in danger (for the people were distressed), then the people hid in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in holes, and in pits. 

And some of the Hebrews crossed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. 

Then he waited seven days, according to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.

When Israel heard it said that Saul had attacked a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel had also become an abomination to the Philistines. And the people were called together to Saul at Gilgal. Gilgal means that it is the place where the reproach of the Israel was removed. Then the Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth Aven. When the men of Israel saw that they were in danger (for the people were distressed), then the people hid in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in holes, and in pits. And some of the Hebrews crossed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. Then he waited seven days, according to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.

Also in 1 Samuel 13: 9 – 14 So Saul said, “Bring a burnt offering and peace offerings here to me.” And he offered the burnt offering. 

Now it happened, as soon as he had finished presenting the burnt offering, that Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him.

And Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash, 

then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord.’ Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.”

And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you. For now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 

But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

The above-mentioned words because Saul offered the burnt offering before Samuel came, God said that his kingdom will not continue by sending Samuel and told Saul that. But even though Saul told the reason why he offered the burnt offering God did not accept that. From this what we must know is that we cannot give any reason to God against the law of the Lord. Also, my dear people like this only we think that we are saved but we are in the bondage of the thoughts of the Philistines. That is what, God with patterns is explaining and showing and is telling that the Israelites are hiding in many places. Therefore, we must never be under the bondage of such thoughts and till God manifests himself in our soul we must wait and we must submit our soul as a living sacrifice and offering.

Let us pray. May the Lord bless you all abundantly. 

- To be continued