Frightened by the Philistine army and receiving no answer from God, Saul disguised himself and visited a medium at Endor. He asked her to bring up Samuel. Yet Samuel’s message confronted him with the word he had already disobeyed: God had taken the kingdom from him, and defeat and death lay ahead. Saul had sought direction through a forbidden practice, but it offered no escape from God’s judgment. Fear can make us eager for any voice that promises an answer. We can become so determined to know what comes next that we disregard what God has already made clear. Saul’s night at Endor warns us to examine where we turn when we are desperate. Wanting an answer badly does not make every source worth consulting. A forbidden road does not become safe because we are frightened.
“So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;” —1 Chronicles 10:13
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