Lord, please reign in my life! You are my King! Please help
me get back on the right path when I walk away and help me never to let go of
You! You are my King and my desire is to serve You and never to turn away from
You!
The Israelites wanted a king to reign over them, they wanted
someone they could see, someone who could “judge us and go out before us and
fight our battles.” (1 Samuel 8:20). They also wanted a king so “that we also
may be like all the nations…” (1 Samuel 8:20). They wanted a king in order to
fit in with the nations around them. They must have felt like the laughing
stock of the area, they served a King that no one could see.
But in asking for a king they were saying that God was not
good enough for them, they were rejecting God as their King. God says to His
appointed Judge, Samuel, in 1 Samuel 8:7-8, “…they have rejected Me, that I
should not reign over them… they have forsaken Me and served other gods.” After
all God had done for them they wanted to replace Him as their King. They wanted
a king who would go before them and fight for them, forgetting that God is the
One who goes before us and fights for us.
The Lord tells Samuel to tell the Israelites what a king
would do to them (1 Samuel 8:10-18), how he would take from them and make them
work for him. Yet, they still cried out for a king (1 Samuel 8:19). And so, God
heard their cry (1 Samuel 9:16) and gave them a king.
As humans we often times want something we can see and we
convince ourselves that what we want is better than what we already have. And
God, understanding our weakness gives us what we are crying out for, even
though He knows it is not what is best for us. He gives it to us so that we can
learn to trust Him and so that we can see that He is what we really need. He is
our King and when we replace Him with other gods, money, fame, work, etc., we
end up hurt and lost. The Israelites
replaced God and served their kings and
ended up hurt and lost in a foreign land.
God is our King, He is the one who fights for us, He goes
before us, and He will never fail us like other gods will. Allow Him to reign
in your life.
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