King Saul

This past Sunday I spoke on one episode of King Saul's life. As I have been studying about him I have found a lot of things that have applied to my life. Take the fact that in Deuteronomy 17:18-20 God tells the king what he is supposed to do in advance of Israel even asking for a king. What he is supposed to do is keep God's commands, His authoritative prescriptions on how to live your life always before him. The king needed to be in God's word daily so that he would stay the course. Saul did not do this and it led to his downfall. Just as in any new thing we add to our lives we need to integrate a lifestyle change for it to work long term. We can't say I will just tack this on to everything else. We need to mesh it with what we do already and get rid of stuff that isn't working in our lives for it to become part of us and make a difference in our lives. We need to integrate spending time in God's word and in prayer (or dialogue) with God daily if we are to become the people He wants us to be. How can you integrate your time with God on a daily basis? What would need to change in your life for this to happen?