Focusing Leaders

"But I did obey the LORD," Saul insisted. "I carried out the mission he gave me...."

Leaders are by nature big picture people. We like to look at the objectives and leave the details to others. But sometimes the details can be our downfall.

Saul completed the mission God gave him, but he did not obey the details God commanded. Either he didn't pay attention, or he expected that God would understand and wouldn't care. After all, he thought he accomplished the important part.

But God said that the details were important to him. In fact, perhaps the carrying out of the details was the reason for the mission in the first place. We do not have the freedom to interpret which part of the commands are important and which part we can skip. We had better pay attention to all of it.

Father, please help me pay attention to all that you say to me, and take it all seriously without ignoring the parts I don't like or the parts that seem unimportant or are too difficult to follow through on. I want to be completely obedient to you.