Totally Backwards...

I Samuel 14:32 They struck down the Philistines that day fromeMichmash to fAijalon. And the people were very dfaint.32 The people gpounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground. And the people ate them hwith the blood. 33 Then they told Saul, “Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating hwith the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here.”8 34 And Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, ‘Let every man bring his ox or his sheep and slaughter them here and eat, and do not sin against the Lord by eating with the blood.’” So every one of the people brought his ox with him that night and they slaughtered them there. 35 And Saul ibuilt an altar to the Lord; it was the first altar that he built to the Lord.

In this whole event of Jonathan courageously seeking God and setting out to drive out the Philistines, while Saul sits waiting for his opportunity, God seems like a second thought to him. Everything is backwards.  Act first, ask God later.  Ask who was missing, then pursue the fleeing Philistines. Drive the people to lustfully eat food with blood in it, then build an altar so they can sacrifice properly.  But even in these afterthoughts they seem so half-hearted. Saul is only following the crowd, and the altar is referred to as his altar.  Does that describe us in any way? Acting spiritually when those around us are, making a public show of it, because it's more about how I look than who HE is?  Something drastic needs to happen - 180 degree drastic, totally upside down change.