Distinguished David.

Though David could be described with a lot of adjectives, we can all agree that he was distinguished.

He was exceptional; uncommon, rare. He faced his father’s business with utmost care and loved God from a tender age.

David grew up mostly in the field where he tended his father’s flock.

When a King was to be anointed, David was sent for from the field, after God had told Samuel that the one chosen was not among David’s brothers.

He had no idea about what was ongoing in his father’s house.

God will bring you out even when you’re not present in a particular place or location.

He doesn’t need you to be there for Him to bless you, he only needs you in His presence; his vineyard, doing what he has called you to do.

Samuel kept moving from one brother to the other, but couldn’t anoint any because God didn’t ordain it.

This shows that what God didn’t ordain cannot prevail, and what God ordain will be sought after and actualized.

David had to be called, this shows that as long as we are facing our Father’s business,i.e, being vessels of honour and winning souls for Christ.

When He wants to propel us, He calls us out of the multitude, location, tribe, rank, status, e.t.c.

Distinguished David was exceptional in his service to God, when he failed God, he was sober and repentant, he accepted his faults and sought ways to show through his actions that he was passionate about doing God’s assignment.

We become exceptional in our service to God when we come with a contrite heart, and not only seek repentance but also act out our salvation through actions, working out our salvation in fear and trembling.

1st Samuel 16:6 “When they had come, he looked on Eliab [the eldest son] and said, Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him. 7) “But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

I love this part because it explains how David was also chosen, David was not described as mighty in stature or masculine with six pack abs and a chiseled chest.

He was the opposite of that-1st Samuel 16:12b “David had a healthy reddish complexion and beautiful eyes, and was fine-looking.”

He was cute to the eyes, not broadly built, none of that. God doesn’t look at the weight, height,status, intellectual capacity of a person before elevating the person.

He looks at the heart as stated in 1st Samuel 16:6-7.

Psalm 51:17 “My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.”

David gave his entirety to God and we should too, not just in words, but through our motives, actions, and service.

Be so distinguished that God calls you, a son/daughter after his own heart.

 1st Samuel 13:14 “But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.”

Acts 13:22 “And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.”