Israel Requests a King
8 As Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons to be judges over Israel. 2 Joel and Abijah, his oldest sons, held court in Beersheba. 3 But they were not like their father, for they were greedy for money. They accepted bribes and perverted justice.
4 Finally, all the elders of Israel met at Ramah to discuss the matter with Samuel. 5 “Look,” they told him, “you are now old, and your sons are not like you. Give us a king to judge us like all the other nations have.”
How often do we, as Christ followers, want what everyone else has? The problem is, what everyone else has doesn't always work. In fact, it rarely ever works. Yet we want what "they" have anyway.
The Israelites were no different. So here, we see corruption with Samuel's sons so we can understand where the people are fed up. The same thing happened with Eli and his sons. You can't expect that a born lineage is going to give you exactly what you are looking for. But telling God how things should go and thinking that their choices would have better outcomes than God's choices, is an arrogant, or at least an ignorant, thought.
Watch what you ask for. You just might get it.
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