Since leaving MySpace, it seems I’ve also left the world of blogging. But today, I felt like I wanted to share the insight from this morning. Hannah said it made no sense, but it made sense to me, I guess that’s important. 🙂
If Samson had obeyed God and followed through with God’s ultimate will for His life to become a Judge of Israel, then would it have been necessary for God to close Hannah’s womb so that she would reach a point of desperation and offer her first child, Samuel, to God’s service and unknowingly to her, to also be the next judge over Israel after God’s own heart?
That’s a loaded sentence with like three sermons in it. Sometimes we make mistakes and God makes the best of the situation but other times God has us go through things at no fault of our own so that we can get to a point of complete submission to Him and sometimes when we disobey or lose focus of who God is and what He truly desires for our lives, He’ll look us over and give our destiny to someone else.
I know one thing for sure, I don’t want to make the same mistakes as Samson, I don’t want to go through the same trials as Hannah but I do want the same calling and destiny of Samuel. What we sometimes forget is that God was the God for all three of them.
We’re going to make mistakes, but when we do, it’s important for us to get back up and refocus on God and He can mold us and change us. We have to go through the trials so we learn to be desperately dependent on God and He can place us where He needs us. Finally, when we’re in the right position with the right heart, He can finally fulfill the call He had for our lives.
Growth, Positioning, Placement…or use whatever word best fits the three stages of life. The point is that we have to go through the angst of growth and the patience in positioning if we ever want the fulfillment of placement.
Three different phases of life reflected by three totally different people in the Bible…seemingly unrelated and yet, not one of those people/phases could exist without the other. Really, how can anyone possible fathom the scope of awesomeness that God is?
