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2/23/2010 5:00 AM
by Tim Chase
Now as we saw in the passage yesterday God is telling Samuel to do his job faithfully and God will help him provide a leader the people want. However, the new leader will be a faithful man of God leader.
I believe that as you start to see a series of seemingly unrelated events start to happen in this overall message, we can really get an idea of how God sees everything that is happening and how he works through many people to create results. All the participants do not see the big picture coming together; they are just doing their own small faithful piece in life.
Even though there are not a lot of answers in these specific versus for today, we can all relate what is happening to our daily lives, no matter the year, decade, or century. If we live out our daily lives faithfully by making faithful choices and trusting in God to provide, we will benefit many others along the way, and we ourselves will grow in small steps. I believe that on such a lifetime journey we will touch many others in profound ways and bring people to God. However, many of these ways we will never learn about as those individuals’ lives will change slowly, or later on, when we are not in direct contact with them anymore. But we must trust that one life changed will end up being dozens or even thousands much later, and it can all be started from just one interaction with someone. This is what faith can do on an individual basis: grow ourselves and bring others to God.
Your fellow traveler,
Tim
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Re: 1 Samuel 9:1-17 : Doing our Job Faithfully
I'm always amazed at how God can use the seemingly inconsequential events in our lives for His purposes as His weaves His plan for the world. Every once in awhile, if I am watching, I get a glimpse of His work. I'll never forget the time when I was in college and went to a big Christian music Festival. One morning I rushed off lugging my guitar with me to jam with hundreds of other musicians for an early morning worship time. Later that day a guy stopped me to tell me how God had used that simple act that morning. He was a youth worker who was struggling with the difficulties of his job and was out walking and praying that morning, thinking about quitting, when he saw me struggling to get to worship with my guitar. God used that picture to speak to him about how our gifts could be a burden at times and wouldn't necessarily be easy to carry and use, but we need to keep working at it.
And all I was doing was showing up for worship with my guitar!
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