Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

We've made it 100 days.

Congratulations.

I hope you're doing something to celebrate this milestone.

Alright, let's dive into today's reading.

Have you ever heard of a Rube Goldberg machine?

Let me describe one and see if this rings a bell.

Even Domino's falling over a row by row until they hit a golf ball, knocking it into a paper

cup, which is attached to a pulley system that drops the cup down and tips it over and

spills the golf ball and you get the picture.

All the things in a Rube Goldberg machine have to line up perfectly to accomplish each

detail so that the next detail connects and the end goes off as planned.

It's very complicated.

And that's why God is the best at Rube Goldberg machines.

We see that in today's reading.

Today God lets Samuel know that he's the one in charge of appointing Israel's first

king and he gives him a heads up that the man he has in mind is on his way to meet him.

God arranged the circumstances of their meeting perfectly.

It involves getting some donkeys lost, putting an idea in the servant's head and a silver

coin in his pocket, stationing some girls at the well at what was probably an unusual time

of day to go to the well, and having it all line up not only with the arrival of Samuel

back in town, but also with the feast and the timing God gave Samuel for when the new

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