If It's To Be...
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What Makes Your Heart Sing?
What Makes Your Heart Sing?
Bailey.
19 And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.”
the people’s plea to Samuel—“Pray to the LORD” (v.19)—is a clear echo of a pharaoh’s cry to Moses (and Aaron) centuries earlier in a similar situation (Exod 9:28).
28 Plead with the Lord, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
That the people should ask Samuel to pray to the Lord “your” God (rather than “our” God) may be an index of their perception of their own apostate condition. Reflecting Samuel’s words in v.17, they admit that asking for a king was an evil that “added to” (v.19)—and thus perhaps superseded—all their other sins
The rain could prove to destroy the crops and they would die of starvation.
20 And Samuel said to the people, “Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.
You’re getting exactly what you asked for.
All is not lost, however, if only the people will acknowledge that their true King is the Lord himself: “Do not [ʾal] turn away.” Samuel further urges Israel to “serve the LORD with all your heart,” an often expressed covenant requirement
If you do the right thing, you shall live. Deuteronomy 11.13-14
13 “And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.
21 And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.
22 For the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.
Why had God chosen Israel? He loved them, in spite of their sins.
See Deuteronomy 7.6-9
6 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Why has God chosen you? He loves you.
23 Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
Samuel will pray ( that they get it right).
Moses prayed for Israel’s sin.
Daniel prayed for forgiveness of the people.
Paul prayed for the churches.
Jesus prayed for us.
Samuel.… he will pray.
24 Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.
The Rest Is Up To You.
renew the covenant.
See Deuteronomy 10.20-21
20 You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear. 21 He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.
13 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
Do you want joy?
this is hard work.
2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.” 3 The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad.
