PECULIAR TREASURE

MEMORISE: “Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine…’ (Exod 19:5)
READ: 1 Samuel 15: 22-27

Many times we err because we equate our standards with God’s. the Scriptures clearly state that God is not a man. He has already said that nothing unclean will gain entrance into heaven but some feel otherwise. We think we can get him to lower his standards.

For you to remain a favourite bride, God requires total obedience. In today’s reading, God sent a favourite bride to another of his favourites. Samuel told Saul that God preferred and demanded total obedience above sacrifice, but the latter refused to obey fully. As a result God, rejected him as a favourite. May God never reject you! ‘Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine…’( Exod 19:5)

You are special to God. If you will keep his covenant and obey his Word, then you will become a peculiar treasure above everyone else on the face of the earth! How marvelous. But remember being a favourite is a choice that can also be reversed. Esther replaced Vashti as Queen (Esth. 2:17) and afters that Vashti was deserted; nothing was ever heard of her again. Joshua replaced Moses; King Saul replaced Eli and David replaced Saul.

1 Samuel 16:13-14 tells us that king Saul woke up as a king one morning, but before the end of the same day, he had become a lunatic. You have to know how to told tight to being God’s favourite. ‘So the last shall be the first and the first last: for many be called but few chosen’ (Matt 20:16)

This implies that if the number one misbehaves, he can become the last and vice versa. Are you sanctified? Do not allow death to meet you before you are made perfect. You have the opportunity now to become the person he swants you to be.

ACTION POINT
Tell God that you are willing to do his will.
Ask him to help you remain his treasured possession.