Give Us A King: Be Careful What You Ask For
35th in a series on how men and women in the Bible deal with waiting, disappointment and unemployment Give Us A King: Be Careful What You Ask For Observations of 1 Samuel 8:1-10:1 Most often we pray foolish and selfish prayers. We don’t know any better. We think we know what we want and what we need. Especially when we see others with the ‘ideal’ job, house, car, spouse, children, etc. Envy and jealousy have no bounds. It’s a good thing that we have a perfect, good and sovereign God who knows better than we do what is good for us. The nation of Israel at the time of Samuel was a Theocracy. Simply put, God was their king and He administered justice and rule through His prophets. But the system was broken. Eli’s sons had abused the people through the exploitation of the priesthood. They had a brief respite with Samuel for several years, but then even his sons misbehaved so m