“Even when you go to intercede for Saul, I have already rejected you as king of Israel”, 1 Samuel 16 C

* Luis Alberto Alves

So King Saul acted, when God asked him to attack Israel's enemies, destroy everything, bring nothing from the enemy's territory.

An example of this happens when parents tell their children not to get involved with the world and receive the famous “nothing to do” or Christian who insists on toxic friendships. Partnerships with the wicked, people with no fear of God.

In the view of these people there is no mistake in taking some dirty treasure from the darkness, money from the corrupt, from drug trafficking, from robberies, everything can be cleaned on the altar.

However, fear in the hands of God will put everything in place. Patient, the Lord stretches the line to the end. The rebel never sees his mistake, like a pig in a pigsty, he doesn't realize how filthy he is.

* Luis Alberto Alves is a pastor