Today, I am reading and commenting on  1 Samuel 11-13.

I really like when King Saul says, “No one will be put to death today, for this day the Lord has rescued Israel.”  There he demonstrated why he was qualified to be made king.  When Saul was first selected a king there were those who refused to acknowledge him as king.  Then, after his great victory over Nahash of the Ammonites, some of his partisans wanted to kill those who had refused to accept him as king.  They wanted to eliminate those who were not all on board with their vision of the future of Israel.  However, instead of using the opportunity of his victory to settle political scores, King Saul chose to use it to unify the people of Israel.  Leaders today need to take a lesson from this.  King Saul could have used his victory over Nahash as an opportunity to consolidate his power by settling political scores, but that would have weakened and divided Israel.  His choice unified and strengthened Israel.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.