Be careful what you ask for and who you follow.

If you don’t have the LORD how will you survive?

God’s people had wanted to be like every other nation and have a king (1 Samuel 8).

So God gave them a king though it wasn’t His purpose for their lives. He wanted them to be led by judges. The result was that they put their trust in the king and not the KING of kings.

And now facing the looming threat of the Assyrians:-

“Where is your king, that he may save you? Where are your rulers in all your towns, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’? So in my anger I gave you a king, and in my wrath I took him away.” (Hosea 13 v 10-11)

Saul lost the kingship because of his sins and the northern kingdom, Israel, did not choose the line of David but their own kings, the first being evil Jeroboam. But in the end every king they chose was eventually defeated.

What they asked for, what they reached out to, who they took regardless of God’s will and purpose for their lives, led them to their downfall and destruction.

Be careful what you ask for and who you follow.