Thoughts for another day

Aug. 23, 2011

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)

We grow older each day and move on in life.  As we add on the years, apart from increase in the girth of the body, there're many attributes growing in us; besides, wisdom and sense of taste also come.  Some become successful – the worldly way; which is having many possessions, in addition to the positions attained and some become successful in God's ways though not very wealthy nor owning much.  Then, there're a few who're both – successful in the world and in God's ways too.  They're called to walk in His ways and are also honored among men.  They're called blessed by the world for it sees God's hand in their lives –how they prosper in everything they do.  Additionally, they also exude a calm and confidence that's different from the world.

That was the way with David.  God had chosen him to shepherd Israel and he was to learn firsthand what it meant to be anointed by God as king.  Though anointed, he was hounded like a dog, near death many times.  He was on the run and neither he nor his hunters, that's Saul first and later Absalom, knew why he was running except that envy and their need to kill David to prove their point was the reason even if lacking wisdom for in the case of Saul, David had never expressed his desire to kill him and acquire the kingdom and in Absalom's case, maybe if he hadn't died, he would've inherited the kingdom.  But those were hard lessons David learnt at God's hand: faced with trouble for no real reason!  They were the growing years for him before God turned the tide and put his enemies under his feet.  And in all his travails, David knew God was with him.

There's an inexplicit thing about God and His ways that baffles His ardent followers - why do they find themselves at the wrong end of the stick as soon as they start following Him?  Strange, though it is, rest assured that if you don't question and trust God for what's happening, things will change – no matter what, just as it did with David, even if they seem impossible. Remember if the Lord of hosts is with you, the impossible becomes possible, the unattainable becomes attainable; because He is powerful, this, The Lord of hosts, the God we worship, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen.