The halfbaked Bard

For it is Me they are rejecting Ho! How painful a statement this is from God. All of His pains and hurts are ebbing at this juncture of time. When Israel goes to Samuel to get them a king, though Samuel was displeased, it was God's heart that they have hurt. "They don't want me to be their king anylonger. Eversince I brought them out of Egypt they have continually abandoned me and followed other gods." Everytime we give something else or someone else our priority, skipping our personal time with Him, or not relating to Him as our friend, not asking Him counsel - it hurts God, because we are rejecting Him. I have faced the burden of being rejected by people. I know how much it hurts. How much more when it comes from people whom we dearly love, that's when we realize that they don't love us as we do! That is in no comparison as to the pain of God Himself. No one has loved you as He did, even gave away all the privilieges in heaven and died for redeem...