We should avoid hasty conclusion carefully.

The Lord said to Samuel, ‘God, I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite,

for I have selected a king for Myself among his sons’ (1 Sam. 16:1), “You shall invite Jesse to the sacrifice,

and I will show you what you shall do; and you shall anoint for Me the one whom I designate to you” (v. 3).

But when Samuel saw Eliab, Jesse’s firstborn son, he thought and misjudged that

“Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him” (v. 6).  Even though the Lord clearly told Samuel

“… the one whom I designate to you” (v. 3) and He didn’t designate Eliab, Samuel misjudged

that Eliab was the one whom the Lord wanted him to anoint.

Eliab misjudged David and “Eliab's anger burned against David and he said, ‘Why have you come down?  

And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness?  I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle’” (17:28).

As I think about Samuel’s and Eliab’s misjudgment, I thought about what caused our wrong judgement.

One of the causes is that I think it's a reckless judgment about the other person.

In the case of Samuel, even though God clearly told him “the one whom I designate to you” (v. 3),

Samuel couldn’t wait until He designated to him.

In the case of Eliab, he made hasty conclusion without listening to what his youngest brother David said

because David was obeying what his father Jesse said to him (vv. 17-18).

We should avoid hasty conclusion carefully.