FAITH CAPSULE: The life journey demands to walk before God to gain His presence.
1 Samuel 15
Life is a journey.
In the journey of life, it is worthy to walk before God.
Enoch walked with God to have a healthy 365 years and had sons and daughters.
Enoch did not die a sudden or untimely death as God took him. (Genesis 5:21-24)
Noah walked with God at a time of corruption and destruction.
Noah walked with God to find grace before God.
Genesis 6:9-10 testifies, “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. And Noah begot three sons…”
Abraham walked before God when God called him out to walk before Him. (Genesis 17:1)
Abraham walked before God to be blameless to gain the promises of God.
Walking with God is walking before God also to walk in Him.
The word of God points out that walking with God, walking before God, is walking in Him. Colossians 2:6 states, “As you, therefore, have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.”
How is your walk with God, before God, or walking in Him?
Life is a journey, do right and not just know about God.
King David knew God the evidence that he walked before God to become recognized as “a man after God’s own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14)
King Saul could not walk with God.
King Saul disobeyed God.
1 Samuel 15:1-3 records the disobedience of King Saul: “Samuel also said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now, therefore, heed the voice of the words of the Lord. 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. 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.’”
Saul walked in his way and did not walk before God.
I Samuel 15:7-9 records, “Saul attacked the Amalekites, from Havilah all the way to Shur, which is east of Egypt. He also took Agag king of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 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.”
Walking with God is pleasing God, but disobedience to God does not please God.
Failure to walk before God shall experience rejection by God.
Samuel delivered the consequence of the disobedient of Saul before God,“…Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.” (1 Samuel 15:26)
A life journey is worth walking before God.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable your walk before Him.