Anointed to do great works, chosen to walk in the path of greatness, foretold future of reformation. Yet we wait in the mundane of life; we stand in faithfulness, not loosing heart with our eyes on the Lord. The season of preparation before great works are accomplished is not time wasted, nor or is it time lost. However it’s the forming of godly character and faithfulness that will be needed to walk the paths of greatness. If King David would have taken the throne as a young man, when he was “anointed” to do so it would have been disastrous. His Character would not have match His anointing to be King. Humility would not have been formed, knowledge would not have been gained. He would have been crushed by the pressure of being King. It was the years spent on the run, having to choose honor that made David such a great King.
King David.
A young man rejected from his family and put on a hillside looking after some sheep, being faithful in his life, singing to the Lord with no one around. One day walking on a hillside a bear comes to take one of his sheep. (1 Samuel 17:36) The young David raises up his club facing fear and death and kills the bear. After the bear has come another tries his luck, the lion comes to pick off a sheep. The young David once again comes with his club and kills the Loin. With trophies to show his greatness, still no one cares about little David sitting on the hill side.
Then one-day the prophet comes to his home. His own Father does not invite him in to be looked upon by the prophet. However the Lord saw him, and the Lord spoke. David came, Samuel saw him; a ruddy, bight eyed, hansom young man. The Lord speaks and David is anointed as King of Israel. Suddenly David goes from sitting on a hillside to playing for the current King Saul. Saul would be deeply troubled and the young David would play his harp and Saul would find rest and freedom.
In this season; he knows he is the new King, but he is still being forced to serve Saul and his father. His brother’s have gone off to battle and David being a servant goes to take them food. He hears of a man defiling the armies of God, and while everyone is cowarding from the giant. David is overcome with zeal for the army of God. Men around him including his brother grew angry calling him prideful and weak. Yet David was unmoved and knew the Lord was with him. He allowed not his confidence to be shaken by the words of those around him. He followed the voice of God. When Saul questioned him, David simply pointed to his history of killing the Lion and Bear. “The Lord delivered them to me, so shall He deliver this Philistine.” Saul agrees and David with a sling and a stone, no armor, no sword, but only a stone and promise.
Little David marches himself out to face the giant; with everyone doubting him he faces the giant, and we all know how the story goes. David slays the giant and becomes a instant celebrity in the land. They sang songs about him, wrote stories. He was the next inline to become a great King of Israel. However King Saul grew to hate him; and with a sharp launching of a spear David would end up on the run. (1 Samuel 18)
He was anointed King; he could have killed saw and moved into the land as King, and it would have been seen right for him to do. But David would choose to spend the next years of his life not planning on how to become King of Israel but instead learning how to live a life of honor. 1 Samuel 24 shows us how David went above and beyond to honor Saul and show him that he indeed loved his King. Again and again Saul would try and take the life of young David; and just the same David would respond in honor. Even in Saul’s death David avenged his blood and brought His grandson into his kingdom to sit at his table. But have you ever thought of what would have happened if David would have over thrown Saul and taken the kingdom.
Those years spent in honoring and gaining wisdom, would have been lost. David like Abraham would have jumped ahead of the Lord and gotten a Ismael instead of an Isaac. Do you think David would have gone down in history as Israel’s greatest King? That the Lord Himself would have come from his blood line? Would he have had cities named after him? Scriptures written by him? All the greatness that he obtained through honor and obeying the Lord and his anointed would have most certainly been lost.
David accomplished greatness by staying steady and staying faithful, even when he wasn’t doing what the Lord had anointed him to do; which was be king. He was still right in the Lord’s will off in the woods running for his life. Those seasons of preparation, those seasons in the market place are never time lost, or anointing wasted. It was servant-hood, humility, honor, and obedience that lead David in the path of greatness. When his loved one’s; his friends those around him were saying “you cannot”, or “this is what the Lord says, take the land”, David stayed true to what the Lord had for him. He honored the king, he walked by faith, he then was brought in and became the most famous king of Israel’s history.
I feel that David’s story of the years spent not in “his calling” is applicable to so many of us. Promises, dreams, and hopes of things we will do in the Lord seemingly on hold while we spend our time working, and doing very mundane things in this life. But if you could see the gold being formed inside of you when you choose to honor your boss, and co-workers. When you choose to bless those who once were under you but now pass you up in life, there is real things being formed in you that you will be a disaster in your “calling” without. The Lord is after getting you to the end of this race with the most humility, honor, and strength built in you as possible. I bid you today to says yes to the mundane, say yes to honor, say yes to life. If David would have became King without those years on the run it would have been a disaster. Just like us he is spending years on the run or years doing something he hasn’t been called to do; little did he know and little do we know how those years set him up for greatness. So to those of you like me who are spending your days in the waiting; not really feeling like you are walking in the fullness of what God has for you, I urge you do not loose hope. Look after the sheep you have, protect you calling from the Lions and bears. Do not become shaken by the words of doubt coming from those that surround you, for God is shaping and forming gold on the inside of us that when that day comes and we step into what the Lord has, we will be golden and found ready.
Many Blessings.
Jonathan Pollard.
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