-Meditation-

1 Samuel 2:30-33

³⁰ "Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: 'I promised that your house and your father's house would minister before me forever.' But now the LORD declares: 'Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained. ³¹ The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your family line ³² and you will see distress in my dwelling. Although good will be done to Israel, in your family line there will never be an old man. ³³ Every one of you that I do not cut off from my altar will be spared only to blind your eyes with tears and to grieve your heart, and all your descendants will die in the prime of life.

--TheSecretPlace--

Let's dig into this scripture. When I first read this I was a little confused, and wondered why in the world this Bible was telling me what I thought to be God breaking His promise to Aaron(Ex. 29; Lev.8-9; Nu. 16-17;25:13) because of Eli. I was very confused, and that is why I have yet to post on this scripture. So I dug into it a little, and I looked back on the scripture where God sets up Aaron, and his sons to be priests to the LORD, and I also read some of the notes out of my Study Bible, and that helped too! So I understand a little more than I did before, but honestly I have not searched out this passage as much as I would like to, and as much as it deserves to be searched out.--So I will be doing more digging.

For now I feel like I should throw out some thoughts on it.

Basically I have found a few things in this scripture that I believe are of importance, and one thing is that the LORD does not break His promises, and He is very very faithful to His word. He set up the tribe of Levi to minister before Him always, and because Eli, and his family did not honor the LORD in serving Him, the LORD decided to forever exclude Eli, and his household from ministering to the LORD because they were -fully aware- honoring themselves first, and not paying attention to the command of the LORD. Eli, and his sons were being unfaithful to the LORD, and 2 Samuel 22:26-27 says

"To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd."

The LORD does not break His promises, but those who break their side of the covenant, and refuse to repent, and are crooked^^in their ways, He shows Himself to them shrewd, and stands in righteousness. I am not done with this passage, and I feel like I have not even begun a deep study into it-I have a long way to go.

I want to ask you, and challenge you to search this out. Dig into the Word of God, and ask the LORD what this whole passage means, don't just take my word for it but instead wrestle with the LORD in this(Acts 17:11), and find the meaning of this scripture, and I will do the same.

I want to encourage you to let me know your thoughts on this, and let me know what you find in scripture concerning these things.

Remember that the LORD loves to show true wise things to His children-those who are foolish in the world's eyes- to confound the world's wise!

---Intercession---

Father of glory, I ask in Jesus Name that You would give Your servants reading this, and those who are not reading this a Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You as we search out Your Word. Let Your presence fill our hearts, and our homes. God I pray that You would be eternally glorified in us. I love You, and I ask that You would equip us to search out Your Word, and take our place with You in the heavenly realms. In Jesus Name. Amen.