Posts from February 2025

On Sunday I shared that Saul’s was a “rooftop” life. The gifted young champion had a beautiful, majestic rise. All was progressing splendidly. Then came the peak, and all too soon his early promise became a flower quickly fading. His decline, degeneration, and degradation accelerated frighteningly. Till finally he met disaster and an ignominious death. How might we…

The lamp of God had not yet gone out. These words simply meant that it was still nighttime. God had directed that the lamp in the tabernacle was to be lit all night long—from evening until morning. * So when God came and called Samuel, we know it was still nighttime because “the lamp of God had not yet gone out” (1 Samuel 3:3). But perhaps those words spoke of more than…

Speak, LORD, for Your servant is listening. Utterly profound words! Profound enough, in fact, to be Samuel’s compass for the rest of his life. And from that day on he never wavered. His ears were attuned to everything the LORD said.   Just as profound, but in a sad way, is the fact that those words were uttered by a man who did not listen…