A fool isn’t someone who lacks intelligence; it’s someone who refuses wisdom.
A fool isn’t slow-minded but hard-hearted — closed off to instruction, allergic to humility, and resistant to change.
1 Samuel 15 tells a story of Saul and one of his most foolish acts that ultimately cost him the kingship. Nevertheless, it was not what he’s done that made him a fool.
As king and leader of Israel, Saul is supposed to model and demonstrate the most important thing the Lord treasures and seeks in his people. Saul not only lacks the obedience required of him, he lacks the very foundation obedience stems from — a relationship with the Lord God.
Matthew 7:24-27
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
Step 1: Honestly reflect on your relationship with God
The one difficult question we must answer to: Is the Lord, YHWH, your God?
Step 2: Do not be content with a comfortable faith
Step 3: Willingly move forward on the next small step
Saul was rejected by the Lord as king because he treated obedience as negotiable;
because he decided partial obedience was good enough.
In the end, it was because he never had a real relationship with the Lord.
He knows of God, he knows about God, but YHWH was not his God.
Obedience reflects your true relationship with God
My Lord and my God, I want to experience you & know you more.
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