REBELLION
Psalm 95:1-11

God commanded King Saul to go and attack the Amalekites with a specific command that stated, “…Utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, and camel and donkey.” (1 Samuel 15:3) God’s command is God’s command and it cannot be diluted. God knows better than the one who delivers the message. King Saul went and destroy all but sparred the best sheep and oxen. Saul committed an act of incomplete obedience. Incomplete obedience is also a failure to obey God. In response to King Saul’s act of disobedience, the word of God came for him in through Samuel, “…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. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He also has rejected you from being king.”” (1 Samuel 15:22-23) Rebellion has its root in rejecting the word of God. Is it possible, in any way that you are having a trace of rebellion in your approach to the word of God? Rebellion is in line with witchcraft and it is a serious sin that causes rejection in the life of anyone that is rebellious. There is a way out of rebellion and that way is in hearing the voice of God; that is hearing what the word has to say or what the word of God is saying, “For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice: 8 “Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion,As in the day of trialin the wilderness.” (Psalm 95:7-8) It is clear that worshiping God will always bring forth His voice in our direction. With the Word of God entering and us being able to hear His voice, hardness of the heart will not have its place. The children of Israel began to lose it because there was a failure to hear His voice. The devil is a liar that has been around for long and he knows what to take away so he can give what will take man away from God. Rebellion will not announce itself when it begins to solidify its footing in your life. When rebellion sets into a man, there will be a loss of the ways of God. Despite all that the Lord God did in bringing them out of the bondage in Egypt, the children of Israel entered into rebellion and became lost in the ways of God. To be lost in His ways is to gain an exit out of His rest.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you not to work the work of a rebellious one.