Friday Jan 20th
Has there ever been a time when you felt completely unworthy of something, maybe someone has asked you to do something that you thought there was no way you could do it?
Go ahead and read 1 Samuel 16:10-13 and journal your thoughts
Something we need to keep in mind when reading this verse first is that he was the youngest in his family (verse 11). In our culture that doesn’t mean a whole lot (aside from being picked on by his older brothers), but in their culture this had a world of significance. For the ancient Hebrews this meant that you were the lowest of the low in your family. You had to do all the chores no one else wanted to do. Highest on that list was taking care of the family herd. David grew up with the understanding that he was the lowest and nothing was going to change that. David was labeled. Have you ever been given a label that you just couldn’t shake?
Now imagine that you are called by God to do something big, bigger than big, to be a king! How would you respond to that? If we’re honest, I think most of us would be a bit terrified. I mean what if God was confused and mixed me up with someone else. I’m the lowest of the low, there is no way I can be a king! Now today, God probably isn’t going to call you to be a king (but if He does, remember I love you), but God maybe calling you to do some pretty big things. Some of them may be pretty intimidating. It’s easy to look back on our past, the things we’ve done, our labels and say there is no way God really wants ME to do this, He must have confused me with someone else. The problem isn’t that God has confused us, but that we’ve confused ourselves with someone less. As we step into our destiny we have to remember that God made us to do big things, maybe bigger things than we could imagine.
Today pray that we would not see ourselves as less than who God sees us as.
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