Following The Rules

     Before I can tell you about this post I have to tell you a story.  It is in First Samuel chapter 15.  Okay Israel has gotten their first human king, king Saul.  Now before Saul Israel did not have a king, well did not have an earthly king.  Anyways God told Samuel to tell King Saul to destroy the Amalekites. Kill them and leave NOTHING behind.  Basically God said Kill the Amalekites and keep nothing that was theirs, no sheep, no cattle or goats.  Nothing!  King Saul said "Okay"  So King Saul kills all the Amalekites and burns and melts all the idols and clothes and other things.  But what he does not do is destroy all the cattle and goats and sheep.  He and his soldiers takes the best of the animals and keeps them.  That was a BIG mistake.  God tells Samuel that he is rejecting Saul as king, so Samuel says this to Saul.  First Samuel chapter 15 verse 16
     "Stop!" Samuel says to Saul. "Let me tell you what the Lord said to me last night"
     "Tell me." Saul replied
     Samuel said "Although you were once small in your eyes, did you not becomes the head of the tribes of Israel?  The Lord anointed you over Israel.  And he sent you on a mission, saying 'Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites: make war until you have wiped them out'  Why did you not obey the Lord?  Why did you pounced the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the Lord?
     "But I did obey the Lord." Saul said.  I went on the mission the Lord assigned me.  I completely destroyed the Amalekites and brought back Agag their king.  The soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the Lord your God at Gilgal.
     But Samuel replied:
     Does the Lord bring delight in burnt offerings and Scarface's as much as obeying the voice of the Lord?"  To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of the rams.  For rebellion's like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil idolatry.  Because you have rejected the word of the Lord he has rejected you as a king.")
     You see what happens when you don't do what God says.  I mean Kings Saul rejected God and looked what happend!  God rejected him!  If you keep reading they annoit a new king.  So when God tells us to do something, we should not do it half way, we should do it all the way.  Saul did it half way and he got in big trouble.  So do all the steps of an order and never skip or change a step.