1 Sam. 10:6  And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.

1 Sam. 10:9 And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.

The first verse reads like being born again. The second verse reads like being given a heart after God. This is the very thing that every born again believer strives for as we accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Notice also the presence of the Spirit of the Lord. The three elemental understandings of every Christian that has received the gospel with understanding.

So why have I titled with breaking faith?

It has to do with the King Saul’s breaking faith with God. If biblical figures represent examples for our lives and the dangers in the choices we make, then we should look to see what happened to King Saul as a warning.

1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

1 Samuel 15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

From this moment forward Samuel sought to find the Lord appointed to replace Saul as King. The finding of David son of Jesse came next.

Did Saul accept rejection of position?

Deuteronomy 33:3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.

Ephesians 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

Reading in Hosea recently I found the words saints used and got curious about the Old Testament use of that word. The translation from Hebrew to English is often different than the translation from Greek to English for the same words.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that in this case the definitions of the Hebrew word godesh and the Greek word hagios translated saint are identical.

They bother mean consecrated, set aside unto God, holy, morally blameless.

So many times I have found differences in the translation in Hebrew and Greek into English that require me to understand the definitions in terms of OT vs NT usage. It is easy to confuse the two and keeping that in mind as I read might not always be at the forefront of my mind.

It is pleasing to me that saints are viewed and treated the same by God in the OT and the NT. The differences are often seen as they relate to righteous law (OT) and righteous love (NT). In this case however they relate to God’s attitude and view of the people He holds in relationship.

It is how Enoch, who had no law to follow and no Christ as an example, could walk with God and please God. The faithfulness of God is unwavering and unchanged throughout time.

It is God’s faith imputed to us that makes the difference. Not in who we are or what we do because God can and does change us.

What happens when we break faith?

That is a question for another day.