Israel is living in the promised land (finally), God has brought them to a point of peace after eons of being slaves, being homeless in the wilderness and then being warriors intent on clearing out their homeland.
God has brought them through trial after trial...
He has given them a great track record for victories, and Israel should have everything that it could possibly want!
Unfortunately...they want something else, a king.
Why do they want one...
"So that they can be like the other nations"
This is amazing to me, because Israel says this after seeing God defeat king after kingdom. They should have had sufficient proof that God's set up for them was good...but they wanted to be like all of the other kingdoms...they wanted to be like the nations that they were defeating.
This sounds ridiculous, but we do the same thing.
So many of the things that we want are shown to us by people that we do not want to be like. So many trends are set by people that we do not want to follow.
So many of the things that we want are shown to us by people that we do not want to be like. So many trends are set by people that we do not want to follow.
When we decide that we need something, we must ask ourselves if the person who showed it to us, is someone that we should want to be like.
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