I Just Want to be Like Everyone Else

1 Samuel 8:19-22
19 But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, "No! But there shall be a king over us, 20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles." 21 And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord. 22 And the Lord said to Samuel, "Obey their voice and make them a king." Samuel then said to the men of Israel, "Go every man to his city."

Have you ever noticed how much Israel as a nation sounds like us as individuals? Israel desired to have a king over them, mainly because there were many judges over them that had become corrupt. Samuel warned them that God was their king and He was enough, but Israel's argument was that they wanted to be like the other nations.

How many times have you used that argument? To go over the speed limit because everyone else was? To watch a movie that everybody else did? To keep a wallet you found on the ground because whoever you turned it in to would keep it? Think about anything where you have not done what is proper because the world around you sees it as normal. Now read 1 Peter 2:9. Why should you not desire to be like everyone else?