Walking by faith

Samuel is grieving the condition of Saul’s soul. He is disappointed and so is God. God directs Samuel to pick a new king in the face of his grief and danger to his life. The king God picks is not the one that seems reasonable or likely. “For the Lord does not see a s mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” Through out this narrative, Samuel is invited to trust God and not his own eyes.

The psalmist prays for us in Psalm 20 a benediction that invites us to trust that God protects us.

Paul speaks of the confidence we have in God, “for we walk by faith, not by sight.” The power of God is extended to us as the psalmist has prayed. We are “a new creation.”

Do we trust him? This God who we have been celebrating as Father, Son and Spirit?