Several years ago there was a
public service commercial about the dangers of using drugs, and the key line of
that commercial was; “a mind is a terrible thing to waste.” There are many
disabilities that a person can overcome, but for a person to lose their mind is
a frightening and helpless situation.
Anyone that has watched a loved one fall prey to Alzheimer’s can attest
that it is indeed a cruel disease.
But some mental declines are not so much the fault of a physiological condition, but rather is the result of a moral and spiritual decline, which brings about a mental decline. When a person begins to live in a way that is in direct opposition to what they know to be right and true, when they violate the moral and ethical principles that they once held so firmly, it has an effect on that person’s perspective of reality. In order to live with themselves, that person is forced to rationalize their behavior, and to justify their logic, faulty as it may be. They begin to believe their own lies. The result is that a door is opened for the father of lies, the enemy we know to be Satan, to being to wreak havoc in that persons life. Many of us know people that have walked away from the foundation of their faith, and years later if we talk to them, we walk away thinking “man, their not thinking right.”
That is exactly what we are
seeing here as we watch the decline of king Saul (hereafter to be known as
‘crazy king Saul). Saul has done some
terrible things, but it’s about to get a whole lot worse. We are witnessing a
man who had it all go down in flames like the Hindenburg. I think Saul’s life
is a living example of what can happen if we walk away from what we know to be
true: Who God is, His word, and who we
are to Him!
Join us Sunday morning for “Crazy
Kings and unintended consequences.”
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