The hour is dark
And it's hard to see
What you are doing
Here in the ruins
And where this will lead
Oh,
but I know
That down through the years
I'll look back on this moment
And see your hand on it
And know you were here

1 Samuel chapter 17 and we've been considering the magnificent battle between David and Goliath
And I know that when you read 1 Samuel 17
and you read of David killing Goliath you're intrigued by the boy, David - his courage,
his covenant with God, his shepherd heart
and his timely victory but what we don't realize a lot of time is that it was for this moment that Naomi lost her sons and her husband.
Her daughter-in-law remained loyal to her and followed her and served her God also and after 10 years Naomi and Ruth returned to Bethlehem
and if all these didn't happen
she wouldn't have given birth to Obed
who gave birth to their grandchild Jesse
and who gave birth to David
what I'm saying is that it took generations
to get David on the stage at the right time
and God has been planning this moment
and God has been setting up this moment
for generations before David showed up
and sometimes you come into a moment
that God has set up for you
but all you see is the moment
but God sees the entire process that led you here

listen friends,
providence is how God sets up purposes in time
it is providence that brings about the collision between destiny and time
and if David had not obeyed his father
and showed up that morning at the battleground
he would have missed the moment that God had been setting up for four generations

preparation is not something you do
because there's an announcement of purpose
Your preparation for greatness and for destiny is in your daily routines
Do you have the habit of showing up just like David
Or do you give excuses for errands?
Can you see the divine in your everyday life?

Think about 2 Kings 3 verse 11 - the Bible says Jehoshaphat asked, is there no prophet of the Lord here through whom we may inquire of the Lord? And one of his servants replied to the King of Israel that there's Elisha the son of Saphat who used to pour water on the hands of Elijah the prophet
you can imagine that Elisha's confirmation
and validation of the anointing was found in the things that he did daily before that moment

I look at David killing Goliath
and I realize that all the questions of Naomi
were answered in that moment of David's victory
I mean it didn't make sense
Naomi would probably have asked
why did I lose my sons?
why did I lose my husband?
and possibly it made no sense
but you see providence makes sense of the things that makes no sense
and I hope that the next time you say that time will tell
you mean we will understand God's will better and better
as time goes on

friends,
this morning
you may have just walked into something
God has been setting up for generations
and all he asks of you
is to show up
because time will tell

Have a blessed day friends.

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