A Royal Request

This message was given by Pastor Jonathan Stobbs as he continued his evening ministry in the Book of 1 Samuel.
The people cry ‘we want’, and God will allow them their desire, but it will come at a cost. In the chapter we see the demand for instant change that will have hard consequences. It was not necessarily the request that was wrong but the motivation, ultimately the Israelites were rejecting God. They thought their demand would guarantee their immediate future, but they failed to realise that God is the One who always has the best for His people. As they insisted on their own way, they would live to regret such a hasty decision. In this message, Pastor Stobbs speaks of how the verses here not only reveal God, but also hold a mirror to us and reveal the reality of who we are. He speaks of how the focus could just be about the problem of kingship, but really the Scriptures point us to see beyond that as the episode gives a reality check on what and who we really are. That above all when left to our radically depraved nature we will do anything but have any thought towards God, how thankful we should be that the God of the Bible is a gracious God who breaks us and directly intervenes in our desperate lives by His grace.