Defining moments always leave you with a choice
1 Samuel 16:11–13 (NIV)
So he asked Jesse, "Are these all the sons you have?" "There is still the youngest," Jesse answered, "but he is tending the sheep." Samuel said, "Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives." So he sent and had him brought in. He was ruddy, with a fine appearance and handsome features. Then the LORD said, "Rise and anoint him; he is the one." So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came upon David in power. Samuel then went to Ramah.
David had a choice to make in this moment with the prophet. His life had been totally redefined, anointed and empowered. If you take time to read the storyline leading up to this point you'll see it was a powerful day for the young shepherd boy David, where everything suddenly changed in a moment. Hours before he was sitting, unnoticed by man, on a hillside tending sheep; suddenly his whole life is redefined to being that of a future king.
The prophet did three things for David that day that revolutionised His life.
1. He brought the word of God to him and it was that which redefined him.
2. He anointed him with oil.
3. He gave him the promise of a God-empowered future.
These three things have happened to each of us too: His word revealing our true identity and potential has come to us in the vehicle of the Bible; His spirit has been poured upon us as anointing oil was upon David that day; and the commission has been given to go and live like we have never lived before.
These three things created a powerful defining moment for David to experience a call to a brand new, bigger life. All that was left to do for this new life to start was for David to make a decision – a simple decision that we to also have to make when God gives us a defining moment: "Do I go back to what I knew, to that which previously defined me, or do I go forward into the life that God has called and qualified me for?"
He could have ignored the word, the anointing and the sending, and gone back to the hillside to the sheep and spent the rest of his days doing what he had always done. But no, he chose to live forward from his moment when God had redefined him. We too must choose to live forward in what God has spoken over our lives, and know that the anointing has broken every yoke or restriction on us too. As we daily, like David did, step out into what God has called us to do we will know the empowerment of the Spirit to live that great big life God promised.
David had all of the 'man-made wheel clamps' taken off the car of his life that day, and as you read on you see that he responded by putting his life in gear and moving forward into his God future. He never stayed parked up and neither should you.
Make sure that it is the word of God that is defining your life, and nothing or no one else!
Bless you,
Andy
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