I don’t know about you, but I know that every time my husband and I are on a rocky road, I always think he’s out to get me. I always think he’s playing for the other team and I somehow believe that it is his goal to destroy me.
Peter replied, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. The Lordturned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
I wonder how many of us consider the possibility that the person who gives us the most grief about our faith was put there so we could receive this blessing?
You’re blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That’s when you discover who you really are, and your place in God’s family. Matthew 5:9 MSG
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The only problem is, that usually happens at the end of your life. It usually takes people a lifetime of searching to realize that everything that ever mattered has no real value in the world. All that time wasted; for nothing. Time that never grows back discarded in a quest that was meaningless from the start.
David told Saul that even though he had the right, he would not indulge in vengeance. David will not allow himself to be defiled by giving into his selfish need to extinguish his problem for good.
Standing 9 feet tall, wearing armor that weighed over 150 pounds, Goliath stood in the middle of the field and taunted his opponents day after day after day. Sounds like some of the battles we face everyday, doesn’t it?
This was to be one of the first battles God puts David through preparing him for king-ship. God was molding David, teaching him that not everyone will see him for who he is. David needed to learn that no matter how he acted, people would always question his motives.
Jesse was so sure little David was not the one, he didn’t even bother bringing him in from the field. Why, Jesse thought, would you ever pick the runt of the litter when the stallions are before you?
See, here’s the thing. When God calls us to do something, be something, live something….
he kinda expects us to do it.
