To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice

Note from today’s Bible reading: 1 Samuel 12-16

King Saul was given a mission: “Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey” (1 Samuel 15:3). Saul would defeat the Amalekites, but he spared the king and the best of the animals.

When Samuel confronted the king, he said, “Why the…