MAY 12 "DO YOU HAVE AN ENTITLEMENT MINDSET?"
I have to admit, I read this story about Saul and think to myself, "I would have done the same thing". I don't know what else to say, maybe you're different. Let's read Saul's excuse, When I saw that the men were scattering and that you did not come at the set time and that the Philistines were assembling at Mikmash, I thought, "now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord's favor. so I felt compelled to offer the burnt offerings" I say, "Amen brother". # 1 Samuel is late, # 2 the men are scattering # 3 the Philistines are assembling...there's a lot of pressure mounting here and the only thing that is stopping them is not being able to do the sacrifice and move on to attack...and where is Samuel? He made what we call today, "an executive decision". So what is the deal here? The only thing I can derive from this is that God makes no exception "to the rules...