MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Tuesday September 15, 2020
Topic: Maximizing Opportunity
Text: 1 Samuel 17: 12 – 30
We have opportunities that come our ways every day; opportunities
to amend our ways, opportunity to live well, and opportunity to help humanity,
opportunity to work and be successful. These and many other opportunities
crosses our part daily but we hardly recognize them nor utilize them. The opportunities when we maximize them
usually lead to more opportunities and blessings.
Jesse’s thought of sending David to his brothers in the Israeli
army at that critical juncture when Goliath was threatening the army was proper
though he didn’t know it; but God who in
His wisdom orders actions and affairs was there to use David to serve His
purpose.
David does this visit occasionally (1 Samuel 17:15). However, on
this particular visit, David saw the Philistine champion, giant and hero as he
threaten the army of Israel for 40days. When David heard the words of Goliath
and the promise made by Saul to whoever will kill Goliath, he opted to maximize
the opportunity to glorify God. He saw Goliath as inferior in power compare to
dreadful animals he had killed earlier while tending his father’s sheep.
“In times of general formality and lukewarmness,
every degree of zeal which implies readiness to go further, or to venture more
in the cause of God than others, will be blamed as pride and ambition” so
posited Matthew Henry. This was the case of David’s senior brother who picked
offence against him for offering to fight Goliath. David saw that opportunity
as appropriate and right to glorify God in the eyes of heathen nation and
faithless Israel.
We do have such opportunities on daily basis to preach God’s word
and to do good to others. How do we utilize them? Do we consider
what our relations will say and thus fail to speak out for God? Remember that
if God can use donkey to speak, He can use any other thing to glorify His name.
Will God use stones to glorify Himself when you are alive? Think about it.
Action: Use one opportunity you have this day to preach the gospel to
someone.
Memory verse: 1 Samuel 17 v 26
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