1 Samuel 9:3-9
Have you gotten to the point in this life where you realize this fact; you are never going to understand God’s ways? How often Scripture has said, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “For as heaven is higher than earth, so My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9)
My pastor, Ray Still loves his people too much to not remind us that when we have God all figured out and believe He is pleased with all our actions, we have become the creator, for he is a god of our making.
As we look into chapter 9, it is titled Saul anointed King, but no man would have done it God’s way. Verse three begins with some donkeys of Saul’s father wandering off, and dad was sending Saul and a young man to search for them. And it seems when God hides your donkeys you are not going to find them, in fact, Saul was ready to give up and told the young man who was his attendant to pack up, we are heading home. The donkeys had value to Saul’s dad, but he also knew that he was of greater worth to his dad than all the donkeys, and feared his father would be worried about him.
Now, this is when the story gets interesting, Saul is from a family of affluence, and well connected to the movers and shakers, and yet it seems he has no knowledge of Samuel.
But the servant has knowledge of Samuel, and Saul probably knew who had the record for throwing the spear the farthest and who owned the best horses, and what the latest model of the chariot looked like. As one of my business associates would often say, Saul had a mindset on the unimportant, whereas the attendant knew that Samuel was highly respected and his word was respected. Remember they are not looking for spiritual help but donkeys, and so Saul is wondering how they can compensate this seer, for at that time people would refer to a prophet in that way.
You might find this interesting, Saul was only looking at this as good business, but in a business deal, one is expected to come with compensation for the service rendered. He was not prepared, but the servant offered his own money to help close the deal for his master’s son. Does that bring Jesus to your mind? We could not approach God with our sins and all our good deeds to earn a spot in His kingdom, God referred to them as filthy rags. Jesus the only Son of God loved His creations so much, He took on flesh and became like us in all ways but sin, for God was His Father. And like the servant of Saul, Jesus paid the price required, not in a coin but with his life and his blood to cover our sins, and the lost donkeys of our lives no longer have importance, only doing the will of our Father.
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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