We Want To Be Like Everyone Else
Our text tonight picks up at a time when Samuel is approximately 75 years of age. The leaders of Israel come to him with a specific request. It is this request and its fulfillment that occupy the next five chapters of this book. As we look at their request, I think we will find a number of lessons which we can apply in our own lives.
- We have a tendency to assess our problems mechanically rather than spiritually.
- Instead of looking to God for help we are more interested in prescribing what form God’s help must take.
- The Lord will sometimes give us our request to our own peril.
How many of us put our trust in the wrong people or things rather than God?
How many of us are ashamed to stand out from the crowd, to be different?
How many of us are resistant to any word that does not agree with our opinion?
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1 Samuel