Monday January 19th, 2015 1 Samuel 9:27-10:8
"You will?be turned into a different person." (verse 6)
In this passage, Samuel anoints Saul as the king of Israel, gives him instructions, and sends him on his way. Samuel predicts that God will come on Saul in a powerful way and change him, in readiness to be king.
We do not know whether Saul had descended from a royal family and knew what it meant to be a king, but I suspect not.
On writing this devotion, I think on the story of a speaker at a Christian Women’s Club meeting. She took us back to her high school days. After the summer, she noticed a change in one of her classmates-someone who went from being hard to get along with to something quite different. The speaker was curious; she wanted to know what happened. The classmate said she had become a Christian. And so the speaker had asked what it meant. I suspect she learned a lot from the classmate, for she was speaking to us of her own transformation, one that took time and was still a work in progress, as we all are.
It reminds me of a poster image of a kitten barely hanging on to a tree branch with the message: Be patient, God’s not done with me.
God our Father, help us to listen to your teaching and follow you. Amen. — CRW
Contributed by A Changed Person
In this passage, Samuel anoints Saul as the king of Israel, gives him instructions, and sends him on his way. Samuel predicts that God will come on Saul in a powerful way and change him, in readiness to be king.
We do not know whether Saul had descended from a royal family and knew what it meant to be a king, but I suspect not.
On writing this devotion, I think on the story of a speaker at a Christian Women's Club meeting. She took us back to her high school days. After the summer, she noticed a change in one of her classmates-someone who went from being hard to get along with to something quite different. The speaker was curious; she wanted to know what happened. The classmate said she had become a Christian. And so the speaker had asked what it meant. I suspect she learned a lot from the classmate, for she was speaking to us of her own transformation, one that took time and was still a work in progress, as we all are.
It reminds me of a poster image of a kitten barely hanging on to a tree branch with the message: Be patient, God's not done with me.
