Day 21 - "Why Have You Deceived Me?"

1 Samuel 28:12-13

1 Samuel 28:12-13 "When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice. And the woman said to Saul, 'Why have you deceived me? You are Saul.' The king said to her, 'Do not be afraid. What do you see?' And the woman said to Saul, 'I see a god coming up out of the earth.'”

The preface comes from 1 Samuel 28:5-6 ^"When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly. And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets."

The story that follows is a story of Saul going to a medium to try and bring Samuel's spirit up from the dead to try and get an answer from the Lord regarding what he should do about the Philistines. This resulted in him actually hearing from Samuel of his death the next day. The other unintended result from his mistrust of the Lord was this fear from the medium. She got involved in this story and it caused her great distress.

I take away one major thing from this story - Going about things, even possibly good things (i.e. discerning God's will) in the wrong way will hurt you and others.

Live in trust with Him and walk boldly today, friends.
-M.