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WEDNESDAY January 16, 2019
How to Handle Rejection
But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel prayed to the LORD. And the LORD said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.”1 Samuel 8:6-7
God’s people asked Samuel for a king to rule over them. Instead of a theocracy, they chose to have a monarchy. God wanted to reign over them, but the people wanted a king. They would rather be in bondage than to be free––sad. This was not the perfect will of God. The people had taken the permissive will of God, and not His perfect will.
Samuel took the people’s rejection personally and became completely offended. He prayed to the Lord...
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