Saul comes back from his attack with livestock that he was supposed to have destroyed. But he s found a way to dress up his disobedience . But I did obey the Lord, Saul said. I went on the mission the Lord assigned me. I completely destroyed the Amalekites the soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the Lord your God.
Rebellion is like the sin of divination and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has rejected you as king. Notice Saul has disobeyed what God said, but he s wrapping it up in spiritual language but it doesn t cut it with God. The human mind has this devious ability to rationalize . . . to call fat lineman s gut to twist words and logic to fit what I want. Fat by any other name is still fat. Sin by any other name is still sin.