To Obey Is Better

A Short Reflection on 1 Samuel 15

Not all warnings come dressed in thunder. Some come quietly, bleeding out in the background of Scripture, like the slow unraveling of a man who started strong and died by his own sword. Saul is one of those warnings.

He didn’t begin as a tyrant. He began as a nobody. A tall farm boy from the smallest tribe. Timid. Unassuming. Anointed by a prophet. Fille…