1 Samuel 13:5-15 (ESV)

5 And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven. 6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns, 7 and some Hebrews crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. 8 He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him. 9 So Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings.” And he offered the burnt offering. 10 As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him. 11 Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash, 12 I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the LORD.’ So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.” 13 And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought out a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.” 15 And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal. The rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army; they went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin.

THE LIFE OF ARROGANCE

THE FRUIT OF ARROGANCE

THE CURE FOR ARROGANCE

YOU CAN PRAY WITH US …
1 - Worship Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for their perfect will going forth in your life. Praise them for their timing, wisdom, and providence to work all things according to their plan.

2 - Where can you confess the sin of working and operating outside faith? Where does your life seem to work without depending on the Lord? Confess that arrogance to the Lord and that He will build your desire to depend on him in all ways.

3 - Marvel at the life of Jesus. Consider how Jesus, the only perfect One, the smartest and most powerful, loved to depend on His Father in all ways because of his great love for His Father.

4 - Who is someone blind to their arrogance in thinking that they know what is best in most circumstances? Pray that the Spirit would convict them and that they would have true friends to love them by pointing this out to them.

5 - Ask for the Holy Spirit’s help to become someone humble. That you have a proper view of the greatness of your God and the smallness of who you are and enjoy living in light of that relationship.