Saul and Samuel

Here's one beautiful thing i learned this weekend about God and His perfect plan for our lives....

"Saul learned that obedience is better than sacrifice. Samuel learned that sometimes obedience IS the sacrifice."

i have often looked at this verse as an either/or situation- how precious that God may look at obedience to His sometimes very difficult direction as the sacrifice He wanted all along. just like Elijah by the brooke- he didn't move until he was told. he saw the water dry up, he felt the isolation, he had to wonder where God would put him next or even if he would live through the drought; but he stayed - obedience and sacrifice.