I admit I'm way behind in the readings, but I like to go through 1 Samuel slowly. Here this morning I read about Eli's sons. They were supposed to be priests, mediators between God and men. But they were robbing God by eating all the good sacrificial meat, sleeping with servants, and basically ruling the people with an iron fist. Not good.
Then God has a little conversation with Eli that changed his families history forever. God was pretty upset about the neglect of Eli's sons and even blames Eli for their conduct. The Lord says, "I will honor those who honor me, but those who spurn me shall be accursed." God just took the sins against him seriously.
I am a sinner. I sin everyday. It broke my heart to read this. I realized I like Eli's sons, don't take sinning too serious. I try not to do it but at times, even if I know something is wrong, I do it anyway. I mean God's merciful right? He will forgive me. But, that is in itself a sin. The sin of presumption. It means I can't say 'God will forgive me so I'll just sin now and enjoy it and he will bail me out of it.'
Eli's sons didn't take sin serious and because of it were punished. They chose to rob God. Just like we do when we sin. We willingly turn our back on God. I don't think we realize what we forfeit by doing so, or we don't think God would actually do anything. If Eli's sons knew they screwed up their entire families inheritance I'm sure they'd a thought twice before being idiots. Same goes for us, think twice before disobeying God...He takes sin seriously, why shouldn't we?
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