REASONABLY UNREASONABLE
1 Samuel 15

In obeying the word of God as it is spoken, there is no way on earth that man can miss the favorable move, of the hand of God. Samuel received a message for Saul, the first king in Israel; “Thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. 3 Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” (1 Samuel 15:2-3) Saul received the message from God through Samuel. The message was a command not a suggestion, or an idea. Saul moved by his own direction not in the command of God. It is an act of disobedience not to fully carry out His command. Saul did not carry out the command just as God gave it. Saul attacked the Amalekites, “But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.” (1 Samuel 15:9) After carrying out part of the command, the word of God came back to him through Samuel condemning him for not carrying out God’s command as commanded, “…And Saul said to him, “Blessed are you of the LORD! I have performed the commandment of the LORD.” ( 1 Samuel 15:13) In Saul’s performance there was clear disobedience that is not reasonable before God. Saul’s excuse was to, “…Spared the best and Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.”” (1 Samuel 15:15) Saul’s excuse does not go far before God, but it stopped him from going further in the hand of God and in all that the Lord had for Him. Performing can go on in the church or outside of the church; the bottom line is that God is not up there to be entertained by any dubious act or by active disobedience. Also, no excuse is a supplement that can complement any act, or performance, that is not in line with the word of God. The best excuse for disobedience ever was that of Adam when God approached him for having eaten from the tree of life. Adam responded to God, “Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12) Adam’s excuse was a reasonable one because he did not ask for a woman it was God that made Eve for him. However, every reasonable excuse for sin of disobedience is an unreasonable sin. Before God, there is no reasonable sin.
Prayer for today: Have mercy Lord and let me not walk in the path of disobedience to your word.