Saul answered, “When I saw that the troops were deserting me and you didn’t come within the appointed days and the Philistines were gathering at Michmash… I forced myself to offer the burnt offering.”
Samuel said to Saul, “You have been foolish. You have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you.” (1 Samuel 13:11-13)
It’s easy to obey God when things are going well. But how about when things are not?
Trials tend to show what’s really in our hearts.
Do we really trust God? Do we really believe his way is best? Do we believe it so much that our first instinct when things get hard is to obey him?
Or do we foolishly go our own way?
Saul’s trials showed what was in his heart.
What do our trials show about what’s in ours?
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