The Feed Mill

Today’s Bible Reading: 1 Samuel 4-7

Today’s Devotional: 1 Samuel 4:1-3

1 Samuel 3 ended finally on a good note for the time in many generations of the Judges. We’ve read repeatedly of people doing and hearing only from their own hearts and eyes, and what was right for themselves. Bringing us into the life of this last judge of Israel, Samuel, we had the book of Ruth, a picture for us of our redeemer Christ.

The individual who walks in the redemptive work and gift of Christ and His Spiritual Gifts as Paul writes to the Ephesians. The Lord then reveals Himself to that individual from His Temple and by His Word; the Word which we receive and which the Lord is busy working un us and we are to be shining brightly with, so that it can impact and do a similar work in the lives of all those we come in contact with. Being a dwelling place for Him and receiving from Him.

Then there are trials and difficulties which the Lord allows to come, not to hurt or defeat us, but for the purpose of us to come to Him and desire Him to built up and equip us with Himself so that He may display in and through us the power of His strength and not our own strength or that of the world. The Lord desires in our difficulties that we come to Him for clarity and direction.

Israel desired a good thing, 1 Samuel 4:1 to obey God’s Word and remove the things which will cause us to turn away from the Lord and will take them captive again and again if it is not removed out of their lives.

We read that the two sons of Eli who did evil in the sight of the Lord were brought out with the Ark, and they were killed in the process of the Ark being captured. The consequences which those who are called to bring honor to the Lord when they don’t but only bring make the Lord’s name a by word among the people and bring many to perish because of their false worship and false service to the Lord in causing so many to stumble and leave the Lord.

We have been made a Temple for the Lord, where His Spirit comes and dwells in the life of a believer:

1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 6:15-20; 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1; Ephesians 2:19-22; 1 Peter 2:5