Heart Reading
1 Samuel 9:19
"I am the seer," Samuel replied. "Go up ahead of me to the high place, for today you are to eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is in your heart.
This is where Samuel steps into the history of Israel in a big way. He is talking to Saul, who, at his servant's suggestion, has come to 'the seer' merely to find out whether or not to keep looking for his father's lost donkeys.
He was the first king of Israel: seeking donkeys gone astray. I've read that that was a deliberate picture of the nation he would rule. David, the next and forever king, was a shepherd, like Moses, like Jesus.
But when Samuel said this, David was in the future. Samuel had been told ahead of time that Saul would come, and he was prepared with an invitation to dinner.
He also offers to tell Saul all that is in his innermost thoughts. I looked ahead to see what that was. What I found in chapter 10 is a detailed foretelling of what would happen to Saul on his journey home. It was so particular that Saul could not fail to realize Samuel truly was a seer. He spoke of two men at Rachel's tomb, of three men near the great tree of Tabor, of three goats and three loaves of bread. It is beautifully mythic.
Was it all in his heart? Does my heart show what will happen to me tomorrow to one who knows how to look?
God, change my heart, change my tomorrows, make them what You want.
"I am the seer," Samuel replied. "Go up ahead of me to the high place, for today you are to eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is in your heart.
This is where Samuel steps into the history of Israel in a big way. He is talking to Saul, who, at his servant's suggestion, has come to 'the seer' merely to find out whether or not to keep looking for his father's lost donkeys.
He was the first king of Israel: seeking donkeys gone astray. I've read that that was a deliberate picture of the nation he would rule. David, the next and forever king, was a shepherd, like Moses, like Jesus.
But when Samuel said this, David was in the future. Samuel had been told ahead of time that Saul would come, and he was prepared with an invitation to dinner.
He also offers to tell Saul all that is in his innermost thoughts. I looked ahead to see what that was. What I found in chapter 10 is a detailed foretelling of what would happen to Saul on his journey home. It was so particular that Saul could not fail to realize Samuel truly was a seer. He spoke of two men at Rachel's tomb, of three men near the great tree of Tabor, of three goats and three loaves of bread. It is beautifully mythic.
Was it all in his heart? Does my heart show what will happen to me tomorrow to one who knows how to look?
God, change my heart, change my tomorrows, make them what You want.


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