FAITH CAPSULE: Watch out, do not look outside the direction of God.

1 Samuel 13

Looking away from God is taking a position away from God. 
It is a wrong decision not to be in a position for God. 
Life is a journey, do not take to a position outside of God, and do not become derailed or terminated not to arrive expected end-of-life journey.
Terah, the father of Abraham, looked away from God in his journey.
Genesis 11:31 records, “Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.” 
Terah, the father of Abraham, must have a reason to have an engaging journey to Canaan.
However, Terah did not live to arrive at Canaan because he decided to settle in Harran, where he later died.
Why are you looking away from arriving at the expected manifestation? 
Terah looked away from getting to Canaan.
God called Abraham to Canaan.
Unlike Terah, Abraham did not look away from the calling of God over his life to Canaan. 
Turning away from God is not focusing on God to miss the direction of God. 
The wife of Lot turned away from the direction of her journey of deliverance into a journey of self-destruction. 
When it was time for God to judge Sodom and Gomorrah, He called Lot and his house out of destruction.
Genesis 19:26 records, “As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!” (Genesis 19:17) Condition for escape was not only to flee but also not to look back. However, Lot’s wife made a wrong decision to look back against the word of God and she became permanently terminated. The word recorded, “But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.” 
Making a decision that seems right in the place of the direction of God is a set for self-destruction. 
Proverbs 14:12 buttresses, “There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.” 
Let your decision be rooted in the word of God and not be a victim of self-decision.
The decision of King Saul was what seemed right to him to disobey the command of God.
Against the Philistines, Saul disobeyed not to wait for a burnt offering in response to the action of the Israelites.
1Samuel 13:6 records, “…the Israelites saw that their situation was critical and that their army was hard pressed, they hid in caves and thickets…”  
Saul made a wrong decision by burnt offering against the command of God.
Saul could not wait for God and did not arrive for God.

Prayer for today: Ask to remain focused on God for His direction all the days He has given you.