What! Saul consults a witch? What? What's the Truth in this story?
Saul, like the rest of us, doesn't like what his future holds. He is trying to avoid the obvious results of his consequences, so he is doing something he says he will not do (after all, he is the one who expelled the witches, mediums, wizards). He has come to that point we all know so well, when he is willing to do pretty much anything to avoid facing up to the consequences of his actions.
Saul, like the disciples (No, Lord, I will never betray you), ends up doing something he could not conceive of himself doing because he is driven by fear, by self-protection, by maintaining the world as he desires it to be-----regardless of what God has asked of him. Regardless of where God has led him. Saul, like Adam and Eve, continues to demand that he knows the best way forward, that he is in control, not God.
Yes, we may struggle to "believe" or "accept" this story of the witch of Endor, but we cannot deny that we understand, and have experienced, the Truth of this story. The Truth is what we need to hang on to, learn from, and believe. The Truth will set us free.
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