Day 68: November 26, 2025 – I Samuel 11-15 and Psalm 10

Our reading in Samuel really ends on a sad note: “The Lord was sorry that he made Saul king over Israel.” We see that it does not take long for Saul to lose the favor of the Lord. Within a few days he gets impatient and doesn’t wait for Samuel and takes matters into his own hands and from there Samuel tell him that God has removed his favor. This happens all the way back in chapter 13. You notice that in chapter 11 there is a little more fanfare and Saul is made king a second time, but this doesn’t prevent Saul from focusing on his needs and what he wants without relying upon the Lord. It is so easy to play armchair quarterback and say that if I were in Saul’s place I would have remembered how he became king and how God had lined up the miracles to make him king that we would obey. But do we not forget that we are able to see the miracles of the Lord daily in our lives and yet we forget as well?