Focus: Psalms 50:16-17 - KJV
16. But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17. Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
1 Samuel 15:1-11
Life, from the beginning to the end is full of examinations and instruction is a part of examination. Unless a candidate obeys the instruction of the examiner, he is not likely to pass the examination. There are instructions and there are instructions: the instructions of God are not anyhow instructions that we may apply our “wisdom” to affect. The disobedience of a jot in it is tantamount to wickedness. Hence, those who love the instructions of the Lord to carry them out to the letter are considered righteous, by Him. Remember His testimony of Abraham, how He said he would do His instructions and teach his children after him to do the same? On the converse side, those who do not love instruction and cast them away at will are considered wicked. Think about it: the one who gave us life, equipped us with all we have and all we are, cannot tell us to do things and we do otherwise. It will mean we do not want His will to be done and therefore, we exhibit wickedness towards Him.
Saul was taken from being a wanderer over a lost animal to becoming king over the whole of Israel and becoming entitled to very many animals and servants. Then the one who made him king says he was to do something to fulfil the will of his maker and he altered that instruction to do his own will as against God’s will. But who was he to do that? What he said in simple terms is that God is stupid and He should not be obeyed. When God spoke about David on the other hand, He said he was a man after His heart because he would do all he was commanded. True to it, not only did David as God commanded, he sought God’s command before doing things and he was loved and established. Those who cast God’s words behind them are not only foolish but wicked. God has no pleasure in them and cannot release His instruction to them to pass on to others.
Beloved, it is easy to tear actors in the Bible apart as we read their doings. If it were not for the longsuffering of God, many of us would have been cast off like Saul for our belligerent disobedience to the Lord’s instructions. Incidentally, because many do not hear or see God directly, when the consequences of their wickedness catch up with them, rather than look inwards, they blame the one they had called stupid by casting His instructions behind them. God is drumming it into our ears again today that to please Him, we must be in complete obedience. To take the full benefit of God, we need to love His instructions and operate in full obedience to them. That is why it is written that we cannot continue in sin and ask grace to abound. For us to continue to take the benefit of God, then we must love His instructions so as to fulfil His will as we do them.
SOLUTION: It is an insult to disobey God’s instruction in the first place; then we must ensure we do not override God’s will in any affair with our own will. Let us be keen on His instructions as given to us by Christ in scriptures and as we get from His Spirit in our walk with Him. Howbeit, God will not give His instruction to those who willfully disobey Him to give to others.
Please pray:
· Give thanks to God for not making you deaf to His instructions
· Ask Him to continue to instruct you if possible, on a daily basis so that you may never go astray
· Ask God to equip you fully by His Spirit so that you may never alter or go against His instructions or any of them
· Pray that as you operate in His instructions, He would bestow you with greater benefits better than David and make His instruction sweet in your mouth to give to others
· Ask for your daily bread today
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