The sheep will get you every time.

E-V-E-R-Y time!

Check out Saul.

He’s the one riding shotgun in the ticker tape parade.  Saul and his army have just whipped a  band of thugs called the Amalekites.

That’s him waiving to the crowds, blowing kisses and punching hisnumber one finger to the air.  

“Saul, slayer of thousands!” the revelers chant.

Saul is believing his own press releases.  So much so that he builds a monument to himself atop Mt. Carmel.  In case the people forget…
Saul is leaving this place he wants to be remembered when he is reminded his win is short lived.  A familiar figure approaches as Saul is uncorking some more bubbly.

It’s Samuel.

“Nuts.”

He’s the one guy Saul does not want to see right now.  

The men report to Saul.  

Samuel reports to God.  

This makes Saul squirm.  

“Samuel is coming.  Quick, everybody look busy….  and hide those sheep!”

Ahh….  the sheep.

Those taddling, even-toed ungulates.  The pesty proof of a partitioned life.

Such was Saul’s.  

Saul believed his secret sat outside God’s vision.

“I have carried out the Lord’s instructions…”

Sound familiar?  

Do you hold a secret you think is outside God?  

Do you think you can contain those consequences?  

If these questions scrape your center, consider Samuel’s words to Saul:

“What then, is this bleating of sheep in my ears?”

Oh yeah….  THAT!

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