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Devotionals
"And do not turn aside; for then you would go after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they are nothing." 1 Samuel 12:21
What a strange, and even anticlimactic, statement! Samuel says to the people that they must not turn aside from God. That certainly makes sense, but his reason is rather startling. He says that if they deviate from following the Lord they will end up going "after empty things." Okay, I get it. They would fall for the frivolous, but is that the worst thing that could happen? Is it really all that bad that those who detour from following after God would go after those things that are "nothing"?
"And do not turn aside; for then you would go after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they are nothing." 1 Samuel 12:21
What a strange, and even anticlimactic, statement! Samuel says to the people that they must not turn aside from God. That certainly makes sense, but his reason is rather startling. He says that if they deviate from following the Lord they will end up going "after empty things." Okay, I get it. They would fall for the frivolous, but is that the worst thing that could happen? Is it really all that bad that those who detour from following after God would go after those things that are "nothing"?