We Want a King

 1 Samuel 8-10; 2 Corinthians 10 

“But the people refused to listen to Samuel. ‘No!’ they said. ‘We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.’”

1 Samuel 8:19, 20

“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

1 Corinthians 10:5

The way of this world is to put our hope in a person, rather than in the presence of the Lord to save us and lead us. Our pretension is to trust in something we know and think we can control, rather than surrender our will to God. This spiritual warfare cuts through the center of every human heart and requires the weapons of the Spirit and the gospel to overcome. 

In the battleground of our mind will we take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ?

The victory and freedom we are looking for don’t come from a better human leader; they come from Christ. He has already won the victory. Our privilege and challenge is to apply Christ’s victory in the battles we face every day.

“Lord Jesus, you are my leader, my strength, and my deliverer, for your glory.”