Today's passage: 1 Chronicles 10
Did Saul's life have to end this way? No, he could have repented at several points in his reign as king. His story reminds me of a child who is endlessly stubborn, and is sometimes disciplined by the consequences of that stubbornness. For instance, as a five year old, I was determined to play with my balloon in the house. My parents kept telling me not to and that I would fall and hurt myself. While I was still playing, it finally happened, I fell and hit my head on the coffee table AND had to get stitches. This may seem a strange comparison to what happened to Saul in this chapter, but at the core there are strong similarities. I, too had the chance to repent from my stubborn attitude, but it took the corner of the coffee table to stop me from demanding my own way. Ever since the first time Saul disobeyed God, he seemed to travel a downward spiral, continuing to choose his own way, and so he chose his and his family's destruction.
Where are we today? Are we following God's direction in our lives? Or are we following our own path, maybe in direct opposition to what God's direction is? STOP! Right where you are, and surrender your will to God's. It's never too late to repent. Ezekiel 18:32 says, "Repent and live!"
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