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“When you were little in your own eyes”

How big (or little) are you in YOUR OWN eyes? How do you see yourself compared to God?

In First Samuel 15, the Lord told King Saul, “Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them” (15:3). “But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them” (15:9). Amazingly, after the Lord told Samuel that Saul “has not performed My commandments” (15:11), then the king told Samuel, “I have performed the commandment of the Lord” (15:13). By way of censure, and perhaps to capture his attention, Samuel began his rebuke of Saul with these words, “When you were little in your own eyes…” (15:17). Samuel’s purpose who to wake the king to the reality that he was now so “big in his own eyes” that he set his will above the Lord’s will! He was NO LONGER little in his own eyes!

Are you still “little in your own eyes” (cf. Mt. 5:3; Jas. 4:10)? Or have you outgrown God?