Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“The Lord said to Samuel, ‘How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.’”
NL Daily Devotion for Thursday, October 22, 2020
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
Change is never easy. We have a tendency to cling to the familiar instead of being open to embracing what’s next, simply because it’s unknown. How many of us have stayed in jobs that have not been life-giving simply because it’s “the devil you know?” Or relationships?
Israel’s first king was losing his marbles, turning violent, neglecting the people with whom God had entrusted him. It was time for a new king. But who? Samuel, God’s prophet, who had himself anointed Saul in the first place, now had to go where God directed and anoint someone else—a completely unknown entity. Samuel grieved over Saul, but God spurred him onward. “Let it go. Follow me. Trust.”
In recent months I have had to do just this. Not to anoint a new king, but make a major life change. To let go of what was before, and trust that God is leading and guiding, and has my back whatever the future may hold. Easy? No. But good.
What am I clinging to that is not life-giving out of a fear of change?
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