1 Samuel 15:22-23, “And Samuel said, ‘Has the Lord as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifices, and to heed than the fat of the rams. For rebellion is as the sin of divination. And in subordination is as iniquity and idolatry. because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king.” King Saul was told by the Lord to go and kill all of Amalek for what he did to Israel when coming out of Egypt. King Saul took his army and defeated the Amalekites, but he spared Agag the king and the people took all the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good and did not destroy them. Everything despised and worthless was destroyed. The instructions to king Saul given by Samuel from the Lord were clear. Go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all they had. The word of the Lord came to Samuel saying, “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not carried out My command.” King Saul took upon himself the task but, instead of carrying out what the Lord had said, decided that the Lord only meant to destroy everything despised and worthless. Surely, God didn’t want the best of things destroyed. The scripture says, “to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of the rams.” When we allow reasoning to enter into our lives, we try to justify our disobedience to God. Are there times you have disobeyed what God has commanded and then try to justify your actions? What areas of your life have you not fully given over to God? 2 Corinthians 13:5 says, “Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you–unless indeed you fail the test.”