Obeying God by following the Spirit benefits us and our descendants. We do not obey the Spirit in efforts to be more righteous, Jesus handled that, but because we want to positively impact our future, and our descendants.

Esther and her people would have not been faced with the predicament they were in if Saul had fully obeyed the Lord’s instructions.

Esther 8:3 Esther spoke again to the king. She fell down at his feet crying and begged him to have mercy and to undo the evil plot of Haman, who was from Agag, and his conspiracy against the Jews.

Prior to Esther, was Saul…

1 Samuel 15: 3Now go and attack Amalek. Claim everything they have for God by destroying it. Don’t spare them, but kill men and women, infants and children, cows and sheep, camels and donkeys.”
9But 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: … 10Then the LORD spoke to Samuel: 11″I regret that I made Saul king. He turned away from me and did not carry out my instructions.”…

While grace abounds, our choices do have an impact. Utilize the counsel of the Spirit and dominate your flesh!

Inspired by Joel Osteen