Disobedient Sacrifice

While teaching Sunday School the other morning, it came like a slap in the
face that I was being like King Saul who didn't wait for Samuel but offered
sacrifice himself--sacrifice of animals that had been taken from the
Philistines although God had told him to destroy everything--perhaps all
because he wanted the people to give him high esteem as a dependable
spiritual leader. "June, maybe you think your teaching Sunday School and
being thought of as spiritual is good; but that isn't necessarily what I
want. I want your daily obedience even in mundane and insignificant
things. Anything else is 'as the sin of witchcraft'".

1 Samuel 15:22
So Samuel said:
　　　"Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
　　　 As in obeying the voice of the LORD?
　　　 Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
　　　 And to heed than the fat of rams."