To obey is better than sacrifice

Day 55: I Samuel 13 to 16

Saul was king over Israel for 42 years until God rejects him. When Saul asks Samuel why, Samuel replies:
    "Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
       as much as in obeying the LORD?
       To obey is better than sacrifice,
       and to heed is better than the fat of rams.
     For rebellion is like the sin of divination,
       and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.
       Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,
       he has rejected you as king."(v 22-23)

God wants us to obey him more than he wants us to give our offerings and sacrifices to him. Obedience is one of his "core values" so to speak. God unveils his will to us in the Bible, which is to love God and to love people (#1 and #2 greatest commands). Obedience, as one such will, is mixed right in there with those first two commands. It's not always easy to obey, especially when we don't know what God is saying to us, but we do know what we read in the Bible, and his will is that we love Him and love people. That about sums it up.