finally some free time to type and blog.. we'll see how much i am able to blog before i have no time and have to book in..
key Verses ===> 12:17, 12:38, 12:39-40
i must say that after reading over this chapter once over, i am a bit sceptical about how God is going to speak to me through this chapter, but after prayer and the quieteing down of my ever restless heart, i realised that there is quite alot to be learnt from this chapter. but before i continue with what i have learnt, i just want to pen down how God has helped me the past few days and how He has been increasingly real in my life. for one, i really believe that had it not been for God's assurance over the past few days of QT, i dont think i would have been able to go through the past few days as well as i have.
looking back at how God has always told me to trust in Him and not seek the approval of men reallyleaves me in awe, its really ecause i have been trusting Him so much that i knew that He would help me through my sickness and through yesterday's or rather the whole episode about signing one extra. If not for God, i dont think that i would have remained as calm as i have over and through this episode, i really just want to praise and thank God!
anyway on to today's QT. i guess the first thing that struck me was the amoint f men that joined david but not only that, what i was really amazed at was the amount of places from which these men came from many of whom were loal to their ruler until then, it was only then that God told me that they came because they saw david as a great leader. but not only that, it was because of the way david leads his men that really got me thinking. David was a man after God's own heart. if by ruling your people, you follow after God's own heart, im very sure that God will not only bless you but bless your people as well. for if you rule well and you let your people know that it is God who leads you, surely they would follow God as well. like the lesson from one of yesterday's key verses proverbs 29:15, what we do or choose to do affects the people we lead. likewise it was because david was doing what God wanted him to do and he pleased God, God blessed him and people saw that he was a good leader and joined him.
In verse 17, it tells us of how David never rejected any one of them, much like how God neverrejects anyone of us. prsonally, i feel that God is trying to tell me that not just as a leader but also as a person, i should never reject or dis-associate myself from people that i feel i do not really like or get easily agitated by but like david, recieve them ad try to get to know them. im not saying that those who joined him were bad people but im sure david must have ha his doubts about some of them. but just like Jesus, he accepted them all and i feel that God is once again teaching me not to judge people too quickly.
in verses 38-40 it tells us that David was such a good leader that not only did his men volunteer to serve him but their families as well as their neighbours were supportive. it just goes to show how annointed david is as a leader. i want JYM to be like that too, that all parents and friends of the JYM-mers show their support to the leadership of JYM because they know that it is a place that helps the JYM-mers grow. that is my prayer
lesson of the day:
do not judge and recieve all, be like david in his seeking after God's heart.
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