Until He Becomes Your God…
1 Samuel 15:24-30 (Amplified Bible)
24And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. 25Now, I pray you, pardon my sin and go back with me, that I may worship the Lord. 26And Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel. 27And as Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of Samuel's mantle, and it tore. 28And Samuel said to him, The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you. 29And also the Strength of Israel will not lie or repent; for He is not a man, that He should repent. 30Saul said, I have sinned; yet honor me now, I pray you, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.
My grandmother used to say to her grandchildren and children alike (an awful lot), that we needed to know God for ourselves; that He need to become our Lord and Savior. She used to tell us that she would not be around forever. It is funny when you have your Grandmother, mother, auntie, uncle, Grandpa, or Father there praying for us, standing in the gap for us, fasting, praying travailing for us, we see little need to really seek God for ourselves because we know they have our back. But the strange thing is that we lack the understanding that until God really becomes our God we will be more moved, and more concerned by people, how we look in the eyes of others, how things look, events, and circumstances than we are about doing the will of God. I know that when I was younger, I did not think Grandma would ever die, so I sought to know of God, but not really know Him in a way that He became a part of me, and I a part of Him. I sought to please me and to be accepted by people, and make people happy than to be in compliance with what He wanted from me.
As I read through the book of Samuel and began to really study it I noticed something, very interesting, I noticed that Saul, would refer to God as “the Lord your God, or the Lord.” Saul never referred to God as His God; it was never something that was placed in personal terms. When God is not our God, His will, will hardly become our will. We will always seek to appease our flesh and the soulish or selfish realm of us. We will be more concerned as to what people think, more than what God’s thoughts are towards us and what He wants from us. When God is not really our God, it is easy for us to be swayed into doing things that God has already said we are not to do, because we feel pressured or afraid. It is a near impossibility for us to wait on God and to hear His voice and follow we are too busy following after our hormones, our flesh, our will, our desire, or wants and our plans. But when God becomes Lord over our life, things change. We become more concerned with what He wants from us. We are more concerned with doing the right thing by people, than we are about seeking revenge. We will honor God with our life, our words, our abilities, our time, our talents and our resources. We will be focused and concerned on God and what His thoughts are towards us rather than what people are thinking, saying, or doing towards us.
As you think about what is most important to you, seriously evaluate where God is in your decision making and in your thought pattern. If you find yourself struggling to stay in the will of God because of fear, greed, selfishness, divided loyalties or any other thing that exalts you or anyone else above Him, He has not yet become your God. For when God becomes our God we submit to His will even when it hurts, or is uncomfortable. We do what is right towards other even when they hurt us or do us wrong. We look to Him for our plan of action and not to friends, family or society. We become determined to see His will be done and His kingdom come in our lives and through us. So ask yourself truthfully Has God become your Lord or is He still someone else’s Lord and God?
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