FAITH CAPSULE: Looking away from God is an avenue to fail.

1 Samuel 13

In times of challenge, looking away from God is not to behold the challenges at hand.
To look away from God is evidence of forgetting God, in all His testimonies.
The children of Israel came out of the bondage of over four hundred years by the hand of God.
As the Israelites progressed from bondage to the Promised Land, challenges of Egypt pursued the Israelites to the Red Sea.
With no way of escape for the Israelites, “…the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptian marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord.” (Exodus 14:10)
Looking away from God is beholding an enemy, allowing fear to take over.
Looking away from God is forgetting and not remembering what God has done and is doing.
Beholding challenges instead of beholding God is taking the route outside of His promise.
Looking away from God is not giving attention to God.
King Saul looked away from the hand of God upon his life as he staggered into self-destruction.
In the face of challenging war against the Philistines, Saul failed to wait for Samuel, for the burnt offering.
The given excuse of Saul for violating the burnt offering was recorded in 1 Samuel 13:11, “…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.” Saul was appointed as King, but Saul forgot the mercy of God and rebelled against the word of God.
Saul looked away from God to people scattered from him.
What or who are you looking at?
Looking away from God is an assured route to failure.
Man will fail, but God is forever faithful to wait and act for those who wait on Him.
In life, all should know indeed that whatever one beholds, which generates fear, shall lock down from rising.
Three friends were sentenced to burn in the burning fire (Daniel 3:23)
By the intervention of the deliverance of God, the burning could not bury the three friends by the fire.
The three friends turned to God, and the hand of God answered for their deliverance.
The flame and the agent of generating flame were consumed by their flame.
The three friends of Daniel walked out of the burning fire without any stain or smell of the fire.
God is still in the business of undeniable miracles if we do not look away from God.
Today, set eyes on God and see the salvation of God, which will answer for you today.

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God against all that represents Pharaoh in your life.