After God's Heart -- Week 3
It took three sermons to get there, but we are going to be introduced to David in 1 Samuel 16, in our study of David, as we go through 1st and 2nd Samuel.
What we are going to see in these verses and over the next few chapters is the enormous amount of training, preparation, teaching, and character building that God was giving to David as he was watching sheep day in and day out, year after year after year.
God, many times, does His greatest work in our lives in the day to day or the monotony of life and we may not even know it.
The other part of chapter 16 that we are going to look at together made me laugh because as I was reading it, it reminded me of the age old story of Cinderella.
As Samuel was working his way through each of Jesse’s sons seeing very clearly that “the shoe was not going to fit” and Samuel’s question to Jesse “Is this all of your sons!?!” and Jesse having to respond "no, there is one son out in the field but he is so ordinary, he could not be the man God is looking for." And Samuel told everyone that they would not sit down until David was brought to him…. It is a really great story and truthfully, so much more entertaining or awe inspiring than anything Disney, Hollywood, or anyone else could produce.