The foolishness and the fear of God (constancy, firmness, devotion) as attitudes towards God are constantly opposed, and the life and death of King Saul in the Bible was a clear example of this problem. Folly leads men to their ruin but the fear of God to happiness and life: "Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in obedience to him" Psalm 128:1. The sapiential books with their valuable advices exhaustively deal with this problem, but the Books of Kings and Chronicles with their narrations provide us with valuable stories.
While God blessed David, because David feared God in his heart, guiding him and giving him important victories against his enemies; the Lord turned his back on Saul, for his sins, until the King of Israel died in Gelboe at the hands of the Philistines. And so this is how a teaching of the Bible was fulfilled: "For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction" Psalm 1:6.
Saul committed a very common sin in the Bible, fear men more than God, and this together with the sin of idolatry, are the sins that lead men to the unfaithfulness to the Lord. And about the fear of men the Bible warns us: "Do not be afraid of anyone, for judgment belongs to God" Deuteronomy 1:17.
The Bible teaches us to take God and his wisdom into account in all our decisions before anything else, to submit our decisions not to our passing whims but to that common sense that comes from the fear of God, and this is what Saul forgot.
The first book of Chronicles after recounting the disaster that occurred in Gilboe with the death of Saul and his family, explained the causes of Saul's ruin with these sad words that are a reminder of the wisdom of the Lord:
"Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD; he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance, and did not inquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse" 1 Chronicles 10:13-14.
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