The people of Israel wanted to be like the nations around them and later found out otherwise. In our life, we can reflect on the words in I John 2:15, “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” - Supt. Janice Hall
Monthly Archives: July 2020
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In 1 Samuel 8:1-6, 19,20 we learn that due to Israel and her leader’s stubbornness, they demanded someone else to run their lives, instead of God. How foolish they were! They wanted to be like all the other nations, who did not serve God, nor walked in the righteousness and holiness that their judge and prophet, Samuel, exemplified.
In this week’s lesson we find the ark of the covenant, which housed the very presence of God, being returned to the care of the Israelites.