God blesses the children of obedience

SUMMARY: King Saul was rejected by God because of his disobedience in sparing the kingdom of Amalek and taking spoils from them. We often justify our disobedience and focus on the spoils rather than aligning our actions with God's will. We should strive for obedience and trust God's plans, even if they seem crazy, as he knows the end of the story and the consequences in our walk with him. Let us pray for those who prioritize earthly gains and justify disobedience to the Lord. Let's live for the Lord of glory in subjection and true agape.

King Saul was rejected by God because of his disobedience. The Lord gave him important missions and tasks as commander of the army of Israel, but carnal criteria in the fulfillment of God's plans led him to undermine the authority of the Holy One of Israel and to disobey his instructions. The Amalekites had denied their help to the Israelites when they left Egypt by the power and wonders of God. The Lord did not forget the affront to his people and Saul being his anointed one, he instructed him to wage war against the kingdom of Amalek until everything was exterminated. Saul defeated them and contrary to what God commissioned him, he spared Amalek's life and reserved for himself some parts of the booty (sheep and cattle) under the pretext of offering them to the Lord as burnt offerings and sacrifices after the victory (1Samuel 15:15) . Saul had been forbidden to lay hold of the spoil.

Many times we believe that we have fulfilled a mission of God in all its scope, although deep down in our hearts we know that in fulfilling it we violate some of its precepts. And there are mandates of God that do not require a special call or invent a garden of Gethsemane "to measure" to clearly hear the voice of God. The Lord is in control and we are out of control; Jesus has already called you to the service and you are still waiting for a leader of flesh and blood to be the one who proposes you to assume a ministerial responsibility in the church or to carry out some task that requires your participation. We look for thousands of excuses before crossing the Jordan. We set our sights on the spoil and not on the glory of God, because we believe that with the spoil we can bless a brother, or help repair the courts of the church because that must be God's will. But we were wrong.

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