Leaving things behind..

                                                                 Leaving Things Behind


                      In the book of 1st Samuel in the Bible, we encounter a man known by the name of Saul. He was the first king of Israel after the last judge of Israel name Samuel had died. In chapter 15 of the book of 1st Samuel, God orders king Saul to " go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not..." (1st Samuel 15:3). King Saul partially obeys this command when he decides to spare king Agag, which was the king of the Amalekites. He also decides to spare the best of their cattle. The next time king Saul meets the Amalekites is in the book of 2 Samuel chapter 1.  King Saul is in battle with the Philistine people and he had fallen on his own sword and was not quite dead. He looked behind himself and saw a man standing behind and he asked who he was. The man standing behind king Saul said " ... I am an Amalekite." (2 Samuel 1:8). King Saul then ordered that Amalekite man to slay him because he had had enough. The thing that Saul should have gotten rid of when he had the chance, ending up killing him in the long run. Sometimes in life there are things that we should just put behind ourselves. Whether it be anger towards one another, what someone did to you, or even what someone said about you. Those things can be easily forgiven and put behind ourselves. Yet, sometimes when we do not leave those trivial things behind, it can very well come back down the road and haunt us if we don't learn to not give mind to trivial things, but rather keep looking ahead to what may be in front of us in life.