Do Not Turn Aside
"And Samuel said to the people, "Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart. And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty." - 1 Samuel 12:20-21 ESV I have been involved in a women's Bible study at my church and our preaching pastor has been preaching through 1 Samuel(Check out his sermons here: http://www.desertspringschurch.org/messages/ ) and over and over again I've been reading/hearing these words "do not turn aside" or "they turned aside" and those have stuck out and stuck with me. Over and over God told His people: "You shall be careful therefore to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. You shall walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may l