"So Saul inquired of God, 'Should I go after the Philistines? Will You hand them over to Israel?' But God did not answer him that day."
1 Samuel 14:37
The Lord didn't answer Saul concerning the question he asked because there was a different issue he needed to deal with first. The Lord does provide victory for His people over their enemies, but as we've discovered in the first 260ish pages of His Word, He only does so after His people come to Him for cleansing.
At the time Saul inquired of God, there was a sin which hadn't been addressed. His son had unknowingly acted against his father's orders and then found out about it afterwards, but he hadn't confessed this to his father. All the rest of the troops' sin of eating raw meat had already been taken care of. When Saul finds out what his son did, he's ready to have his son slaughtered, but the people rescue Jonathan because they had seen the Lord's work in him that day.
Question of the Day:
Have you ever done something and then found out afterwards that you had done wrong? Did you keep it hidden and assume that, because you didn't know it was wrong at the time, you were guiltless? Or did you confess the act immediately and seek to remedy your mistake?
Prayer of the Day:
Lord, give me an honest heart. Open me up and know all my sin; lay it out before me so that I may know it as well. Guide me towards repentance and forgiveness, and do not let me try to hide my sin from You nor any other. Amen.
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