5/26/2023 0 Comments Mirror Man by Samuel KingSamuel, no doubt, contemplated Israel’s future because conditions were exceedingly bleak. I will be your King where is any other, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”? I gave you a king in My anger, and took him away in My wrath (Hos. O Israel, you are destroyed, but your help is from Me. The prophet Hosea recorded God’s attitude concerning Saul and Israel when he wrote, For this reason, Samuel-Israel’s godly prophet, priest, and judge-told Saul God had rejected him from being king.Īfter Saul reigned 40 years, the Lord tore the kingdom from him. He had rejected God’s Word and recklessly disobeyed the Lord. King Saul’s reign as the nation’s first king was a dismal failure. Young David entered Israel’s history at a dire time. However, despite David’s sin (for which he repented), he was a deeply spiritual man with a thirst and passion for God, who called him “a man after My own heart” (Acts 13:22 cf. And still others reflect on King David’s adulterous affair with Bathsheba and his uncharacteristically cold-blooded order to place her husband (Uriah) on the frontline in battle, assuring his death. Others remember a tender young shepherd who penned Psalm 23. At the mention of his name, some people immediately think of the courageous teenager who slew Goliath using a slingshot and a stone. Much is written about David in the Bible. A look at how God used Samuel, by now an old man, to anoint the man after God’s own heart.
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