Working on our behalf

29. May 2009 by Bernice Davis.

Hello:

We left off on yesterday with Saul having no luck finding his father’s donkeys and now turning to the “man of God” Samuel for help.  They decided that they could not go visit the man of God without a gift but the servant had a silver coin on him which was all they had left and they took the coin and set out to find Samuel.   Today’s text is that encounter.

I Samuel 9:  11 As they were going up the hill to the town, they met some girls coming out to draw water, and they asked them, “Is the seer here?” 12 ”He is,” they answered. “He’s ahead of you. Hurry now; he has just come to our town today, for the people have a sacrifice at the high place. 13 As soon as you enter the town, you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people will not begin eating until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; afterward, those who are invited will eat. Go up now; you should find him about this time.” 14 They went up to the town, and as they were entering it, there was Samuel, coming toward them on his way up to the high place. 15 Now the day before Saul came, the Lord had revealed this to Samuel: 16 ”About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin. Anoint him leader over my people Israel; he will deliver my people from the hand of the Philistines. I have looked upon my people, for their cry has reached me.” 17 When Samuel caught sight of Saul, the Lord said to him, “This is the man I spoke to you about; he will govern my people.”

There is something so strategic and just so powerful to me that I want you to notice in our text today.   The bible says that the day before Saul comes to Samuel, God had already told Samuel that tomorrow about this time, there would be a man coming from the tribe of Benjamin and he was to be the one to be anointed King over Israel.

Okay,   I’m not sure if you got it.  But the bible says that God was working on Saul’s behalf and he didn’t even now it.   I am really almost in tears as I am writing this.   We go through so much in life but what we fail to realize is that God already knew that we would go through it and God already knew what would happen and God already has a solution for it but the problem is we just don’t know it.  We don’t believe that God is working on our behalf even when God is silent HE is working to bring his word to its appointed scheduled.      The bible says for the vision is for an appointed time and it speaks of the end and does not lie and though it tarry, wait for it for it for it will surely come.  God will never miss his appointment.   Everything in our life is moving us closer to that appointed time.   Just think of it like this.  We are closer today than we have ever been.    The frustration is that we don’t know that God really is working it out and putting us on the minds of people and directing our paths so that we would make the right contacts and putting us in places where his will can be discovered even though it doesn’t look like it.   GOD REALLY IS!!!!!.

Saul was defeated in his assignment to bring the donkey’s home.  He was from the least of the tribes yet had no idea that what may appear on the surface to be trivial and unimportant and insignificant proved to point him towards his destiny.

Have a great weekend.  I hope you were encouraged as I was by this story today. 

Monday, our text will deal with the actual meeting between Saul and Samuel.  I’m so excited. 

Stay encouraged and don’t forget to pray and read God’s word daily.

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