So, Israel rejected God as their king. Samuel tried to warn them and spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who had asked of him a king. He prophesied over them that the king would take their young men and young women to be his warriors and servants. That he would take the best of their lands and a tenth of all their crops and flocks. He warned that they would cry out to the Lord because of the king they have chosen and God would not answer them. But still they refused to listen.
The Lord chose Saul, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor. Samuel anointed his head with oil and prophesied that the Spirit of God would come upon him and change him into another man. Thus, Saul became the first king of Israel.
God desired to be the people's only King. That was His perfect will. Yet, because of their stubbornness, He permitted Saul to become their ruler. God's ways are always better than our ways. His thoughts are always higher than our thoughts. When a way seems right to us in a natural sense, we must ALWAYS follow after our spirit man, which is led by God's Spirit. He will always lead us into a place of peace and a situation that will satisfy our hearts like no other.
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