1 Samuel 2:29 (NKJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhy do you kick at My sacrifice and My offering which I have commanded in My dwelling place, and honor your sons more than Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel My people?\u201d<\/em> (See verse 30)<\/p>\n\n\n\n God is very strict about His honor. God is jealous about His honor. It\u2019s God who honors Man and we must not seek our personal honor at God\u2019s expense. God honors those who honor Him. \u201c\u2026now the Lord says, \u2018Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.\u2019\u201d \u2013 Verse 30. And then He goes on to declare a curse on Eli\u2019s household and lineage for the treasonable offence of not defending His glory. God protects His glory. God does not joke with it. He does not want His people to think that they can dishonor His name at will. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To put all this in context, Eli himself was not the direct culprit. Eli\u2019s sin was that when he saw his sons disgracing the name of the Lord, he did nothing about it. Although Eli had chided his sons, that was insufficient to the Lord. By allowing his sons to still continue to serve as priests, Eli had honored his sons above the Lord. The NLT renders verse 30 like this: \u201c\u2026I will despise those who think lightly of Me.\u201d God\u2019s problem with Eli was that he placed his sons more highly than God\u2019s glory. And according to God\u2019s accusation, Eli also ate from the \u201cfat from the best offerings of my people Israel\u201d \u2013 Verse 29, NLT. God demands that we honor Him above everything and everyone in our lives. God demands that we do not honor those who dishonor Him. God demands that we do not benefit from any activities of those who have dishonor Him. God\u2019s expectation is clear. He wants His people to place Him and His glory \u2013 above everything else in all of creation. Can we work to do this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLord, I will seek Your glory. Forgive me where I have pursued my priorities and not Your glory. Forgive me where I have not stood against those who have stood against Your glory. I repent, but commit to start afresh and to be more sensitive henceforth. In Jesus name. Amen.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1 Samuel 2:29 (NKJV) \u201cWhy do you kick at My sacrifice and My offering which I have commanded in My dwelling place, and honor your sons more than Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel My people?\u201d (See verse 30) God is very strict about His honor. God […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-1st-samuel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1-Samuel-Cover.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3394,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions\/3394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}