The Life Of David - Only A Boy Named David - 1 Samuel 16:1-13

God often uses the least likely to accomplish his purposes.

 

ONLY A BOY NAMED DAVID

1. "Stop mourning and get moving."

 

And Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought out a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you."
1 Samuel 13:13-14

 

"I have provided for myself a king." Versus "Make them [the people] a king."

 

2. Stop judging by appearances and develop a God-perspective.

 

For the eyes of the LORD roam throughout the earth to show himself strong for those who are wholeheartedly devoted to him.
2 Chronicles 16:9

 

This is the LORD's declaration: I will look favorably on this kind of person: one who is humble, submissive in spirit, and trembles at my word."
Isaiah 66:2

 

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed. He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of the Lord's favor has come....
Isaiah 61:1-2

 

He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
Isaiah 53:2-3
  

Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure. All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him."
Matthew 11:25-27

 

God often uses the least likely to accomplish his purposes.