I love Old Testament stories. I grew up reading them and have them read to me, and they played a large part in my coming to know Christ--I loved the stories, and I wanted be a part of it. I wanted God to work in my life like I saw him work in those stories (and in the lives of my parents). I learned about sin through the Old Testament stories as well, and I knew I was guilty. The New Testament told me about Jesus, but it was the Old Testament stories that brought me to him.
That's why one of my favorite books in the Bible is 1 Samuel. A bunch of the best stories in the Bible are found there: Hannah and Samuel, the Philistines taking and returning the Ark, and, of course, the stories of Saul and David.
In the Old Testament stories, we really get to see very human people try to obey God. We see them mess up, too. And, through it all, we can see that though the setting has changed a lot, there are people just like Saul and David and others among us today.
This week and next, we are examining the life of one of the most interesting guys in the Bible, King Saul. Some people just toss him into the file of "Bible villains" and leave it at that. But there's a lot more to Saul than his failures. And when you really look at his strengths and shortcomings, you might find a lot more of yourself in Saul than you'd like to admit...
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