Thoughts for another day

June 10, 2009.

Today's verse: 2 Sam. 5:10. And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts was with him. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

A Christian, or shall I say believer in Yahweh God and then His Son Jesus Christ, should always be rooted in God, depending and living on everything that He sends his or her way. There are people who do that and it’s not necessary that they’re impoverished or not doing well materially. Many think that following and being with God means you need to forego all riches. This, perhaps because Jesus told the rich man to sell all he had then to follow Him. Be that as it may, Jesus I’m sure meant that the Kingdom of Heaven is for those who pre-eminently have God in their lives and not anything else.

In this context, one man instantly comes to mind; he had all the riches and yet had God as the basic DNA of his being: his name is David. When your read the Bible, you can’t but help notice that David understood God and His ways and was always alive to God’s will in his life except a few times when he overrode God’s will and wrote his own e.g. when he asked for a census of Israel and Judah (2 Samuel 24), etc.

David became a great man and he could also like other men who became great attribute his greatness to self, like they say today, ‘I am a self-made man.’ But David did not do that. He always acknowledged God as the reason for his greatness. In fact when God promised him great fame and name, David in an act of meekness, sits before Him and speaks to Him of his smallness… 2 Sam. 7:18. There are many other examples where David always attributed his riches, his stature and his glory to God; which is why the verse today says that David moved on and grew great and in all his adventures or ventures if you please, God was with him. Is God with you in your ventures?