1 Samuel 13:14 (NKJV)
\u201cBut now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Activities. Programs. Deadlines. Family. Business. Management \u2013 managing people, managing things. Making people happy. Responsibilities. Finances. Health. Ministry. These are but a few things that consume our hearts and keep us busy; always thinking and doing, every day. We wake up with these thoughts and go to bed dreaming how to accomplish them. These items fill our prayers and fuel our strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But God wants to draw our hearts into something that will control and drive His overarching blessing on our lives. God wants us to always have an unquenchable desire for His heart. God wants us to live with an unquenchable thirst for His heart. To such, nothing shall be impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saul was given a kingdom and while he got busy managing his kingdom, he lost the simplicity and innocence with which he began. He starting running things himself, rather than seeking God\u2019s heart. He lost sight of what God wanted for him and of him. So, God took the kingdom away from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We need to keep first things first \u2013 and the first thing we need to always keep first, is that continual aching after God\u2019s heart. Doing God\u2019s work must never be our priority. Seeking God is the priority worthy goal for which we were born. When we put this first, other things will find their rightful place. If we don\u2019t get this right, we will ever struggle with men and situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let first things always come first. Let your heart never stop aching after His heart. Never think you have mastered this. Never become familiar with this. Check yourself ever so often if this is your life priority. Be ever restless after God\u2019s desire. Insist. God knows our busy schedules, but He still demands our undivided attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t let life deceive you. Don\u2019t let your daily agenda overtake you. Don\u2019t wake up and start running. Start with Him. Chase after Him. Let your innermost being crave for Him. Ache with desire. He knows when we are genuine. He sees. And He will come through. But let\u2019s put first things first. Constantly desire a heart that relentlessly pursues after His heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1 Samuel 13:14 (NKJV)\u201cBut now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.\u201d Activities. Programs. Deadlines. Family. Business. Management \u2013 managing people, managing things. […]<\/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-6690","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\/6690","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=6690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6692,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions\/6692"}],"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=6690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}