THEME: GOD HAS A SUBSTITUTE
MEMORISE: And Samuel said unto him, The LORD
hath rent the kingdom of Israel from
thee this day, and hath given it to a
neighbour of thine, that is better than
thou.
1 Samuel 15:28
READ:
1 Samuel 16:1 1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How
long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I
have rejected him from reigning over
Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite:
for I have provided me a king among his sons. BIBLE IN ONE YEAR : 2 CORINTHIANS 10 –
13 and PSALM 15 – 16
MESSAGE: One important thing we need to learn in
today’s reading is that God always has a
substitute. If God says He wants to use
you, rejoice! However, be careful,
because even as He is choosing you, He
has already prepared a substitute. 1 Samuel 2:27-30 tells us about Eli. God
chose Eli and his family to serve Him.
God later changed His plans because He
only honours those who honour Him.
One thing about God’s rejection is that
the devil takes the place of the resultant vacuum that is created. This was what
happened to King Saul. We also have the
case of Judas Iscariot in John 13:26-27.
He was a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The moment God rejected him, Satan
entered him and he ended up hanging himself. Psalm 75:6-7 tells us something
interesting: “For promotion cometh neither from the
east, nor from the west, nor from the
south. But God is the judge: he putteth
down one, and setteth up another.” Whenever God gives you an
opportunity to serve Him, please
humble yourself. It is better for God not
to use you at all than to use you and
then push you aside. Once He pushes
you aside, this gives room for the devil to come in. I pray that God will never
substitute you with someone else. In today’s reading we see the rejection
of King Saul and his replacement by
David. No one would have heard of
David if King Saul had not lost his crown
and position; just as nobody would have
heard of Esther if Vashti had not lost her position. God has given us these
examples so that we can learn a lesson.
God told Samuel to stop mourning over
King Saul because He had already
rejected him. He told Samuel to fill his
horn with oil and go anoint one of the sons of Jesse as king. Samuel said Saul
would kill him if he found out about his
mission. This is an interesting statement
because it shows clearly that Saul had
degenerated so badly that he could kill a
servant of God. It is a terrible thing to backslide. This is why you must never touch sin. We need to study the lives of
the people that God rejected in the Bible
so that we can learn one or two lessons
from their cases. We have to know what
God saw in their lives to make Him reject them, so that we can run away
from their mistakes. Why was Esau
rejected? The Bible tells us in Hebrews
12:15-17 that he was rejected because
he could not control his appetite. I pray
that your stomach would not send you to Hell. Some people have never fasted
since they became Christians. I pray that
your appetite would not put you into
trouble to the point where God would
reject you in Jesus’ Name.
PRAYER POINT:
Father, have mercy on me. Help me not
to embark on a path that will lead to my
rejection and replacement in Jesus’
Name. If I’m on such a path, please
salvage me from it now.
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