FAITH CAPSULE: Wherever rebellion camps, disobedience is always onboard.

1 Samuel 15

Pride can be identified as a personal ride to self-destruction. Without doubt, all kinds of sin take its root in pride. Rebellion and disobedience cannot be excluded from all other kinds of sin which are rooted in pride.
Wherever rebellion camps, disobedience is always onboard. After Saul had taken a step of rejection by God as a result of his disobedience, Samuel approached Saul in 1 Samuel 15:22-23, “So Samuel said: ‘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. 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.’” Clearly, to be rebellious and to be disobedient are intimate meaning they are inseparable. It is a way of destruction that causes man to be rejected by God. As a believer who fears the wrath of God, are you searching your heart and see if any of the two are actually having its way in your life?
To be rejected by God is a termination in the line of salvation which denies man from getting to God’s center of divine agenda. The children of Israel were rebellious in their journey of life. God rejected all the population from ages twenty and above and they could not get to divine agenda for their life. Rebellion and disobedience are intimate and if there is a trace of one in you, there must be a line of the other one in you as well. In reference to Jerusalem, the word of God buttresses the intimacy of rebellion and disobedience in the book of Zephaniah 3:1-2 “Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, to the oppressing city! She has not obeyed His voice, She has not received correction; She has not trusted in the LORD, She has not drawn near to her God.” Rebellion is a demonstration of not obeying His voice (word of God). To be disobedient to the word of God is a way of not receiving correction. Constant denial of correction is a connection with disability in listening to what God is saying. A believer who refuses to be corrected is showing lack of trust in God and such believer is not considering God in the making of his decisions. To be rebellious, disobedient, not taken to correction and not trusting God are all birds of the same feather. One that is rebellious is also disobedient. Knock off pride and ride on to salvation. Search yourself and seek Him for readjustment in your journey of life.

Prayer for today: Ask God to terminate every seed of pride in your life.