REMEMBER YOUR HUMBLE BEGINNING

Saturday, 20TH AUGUST, 2022.

REMEMBER YOUR HUMBLE BEGINNING 

MEMORIZE: “Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts: "I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over Israel.” 2Sam 7:8.

SCRIPTURE READING: 2 Samuel 7:8-11

“Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts: "I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over Israel. And I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth. Moreover I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more; nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them anymore, as previously, since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. Also the Lord tells you that He will make you a house.”

EXPOSITION:

Every greatness has a starting point called small beginning. Failure to call to remembrance the memory of your beginning, you will likely end up in pride. God reminded David how he started as a shepherd boy with his father’s sheep in the bush before grace anointed him in preference above his brothers. He was anointed king over Israel. Saul sought to kill him on several occasion but God saved him all through. This goodness of God increased his virtues and value. Calling to remembrance your past makes you think and act wisely.

When king Saul was full of himself in pride, God reminded him his little beginning… “So Samuel said, "When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the LORD anoint you king over Israel? "Now the LORD sent you on a mission, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.' "Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the LORD?"” 1Samuel 15:17-19.

The word of God give us warning against being proud… “Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble." Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.” James 4:6b, 10. 

The question is: What do you have that you were not given? Then, why pride? You owe all to God, the great Provider and the One who can promote and increase value. Always remember where and how you started (the days of your little beginning) and apply your heart unto wisdom (Psalm 90:12).

PRAYER POINT: 

Lord, help me to always humble myself before you so as not to suffer forceful humiliation in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Jeremiah 8-10.

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