Today’s Thought “My Offering” G. Ward 1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.” This first king for Israel, appointed by the Almighty, was given explicit directives through Samuel to utterly destroy the Amalekites. King Saul’s estimation of how that could appear a complete conquest, was ultimate failure and cost him the kingship. All of us are with bouts in how we rationalize what life should involve, to forget we’re not owners of a next breath; even speaking authoritatively concerning those things perceivably allowable by Heaven that causes disobedience in the same as this great king (*1 Cor.6:12). Our selfish plight translates arrogance as we seek to co-pilot with the Greatest King and all our echoes that insist He’s Sufficient to govern our lives becomes a song heard, then forgotten (Ezek.30:30-33), but carefulness in the Spirit realm remembers. As we fall on our knees, may our new lives more present a readiness onto every step HE orders before it’s too late (cf. 1 Jn.1:9).