Thursday 9th August 2007 Why is it so?

Yesterday's post didn't publish even though I told it to and it said it did. Oh well, that's life.
Lets share today's Bible reading.
It is 1 Samuel 15.
This episode was to have far reaching consequences. In fact the end of this is played out in the book of Esther. In fact two of the people in Esther have their origins in this book. Saul was to utterly destroy. That was God's command. Just as an aside, I had something pointed out to me the other day. There is a difference between God's will and God's command. It is this: God's command is much more direct and narrow than God's will. With God's will there is room to negotiate. Not so with His command. Saul was under a commandment. Go and destroy. But then Samuel returns. Verse 14 "But Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears? What is this lowing of cattle that I hear?" Even at this stage Saul still has a chance. All he needed to do was repent. Simply hold up the white flag. We are exactly the same. What is our bar of soap? 1 John 1:9. Unfortunately Saul didn't avail himself of that. He tried to pass the buck. When he realised he couldn't he then tried to save his own skin. We also will try to do that. The flesh, the old self life, will try to preserve itself at any cost. God has only one answer for our "old man". That is death. Am I willing to have the "old man" put to death?
I made a statement at the beginning that I need to follow up on. Let us slip forward to the book of Esther for one minute. I will let the reader read the verses, I will just supply them. I will say this, obviously our King Agag had been up to some monkey business that Samuel didn't know about. So, two principle players in Esther are found in Esther 2:5-6 and Esther 3:1.
Prayer: May I do exactly as Christ commands me and when I do wrong may I be willing to confess it and seek His forgiveness. May I not try to make excuses for my bad behaviour and or wrong actions. In Christ Jesus, Amen.
Saul was the first king of Israel, David was the second and Solomon the third. Sad to say, Saul and Solomon started out well but finished poorly. King David was up and down. But he did rely totally on God and has that in his favour.
Now, your not going to believe this but we finally, it's only taken 4 and a bit years, now have a good TV antenna. Don't that beat all. No I didn't do it although I easily could have. We paid to have it done. Am I lazy? Yes. Well, actually but I am busy. What with house renovations and babies I just never got to it. So now we have a you beaut sound system, a have way decent DVD/video and a TV that actually has good picture and sound. Oh yes, I broke the sound on the TV not long after we got the TV. I never got around to fixing that. Today I asked the antenna man if he could. He did It in about 2 seconds. Mind you we never watch TV so why bother. Michele watches Play School on ABC TV but that's about all.