He Saw The Best In Me

The introduction of our text this morning introduces us to a young man by the name of David. This David had seven other brother and him being the youngest. David was considered to be the weakest, and the tiniest. When we look at David, David’s job was considered to be the ineligible, unimportant, and irrelevant job. His job at the house seems to be the job of a weakling, to some David’s job was minute because his job at the home front were to keep the sheep, he was the shepherd boy, the watcher of the sheep.

And that gives us a lesson at the very beginning of our message which say to us, that God sees the best in us when others see’s the worst in us, also that God doesn’t look at what we are doing, as much as he does of how we are doing it.

In other words, God wants to know how we handle what we have, with what we have. God wants to know if we can manage the little before he gives us the greater. I believe that God wants to see if some of us can work in the background before he bring some of us to the forefront. In other words, God want to see how well do when we are not being pat on the back, when we are not getting any accolades, he want to see how well do we perform when nobody is watching, and when no is looking at us. Do we praise him when we are in the secret closet? Do we lift him up when we are alone? Can we praise him when we are making minimal wages, and can we praise him when the job is what we considered beneath us?

What we can learn from our text in the early stages is that when God got ready to bless the man of God, when God got ready to promote the man of God, and when God got ready to lift David to higher heights, God knew exactly where to find him and what he would be doing. Because David was known for being loyal, dedicated and devoted to the task at hand.

Yes, to some David’s job might have seemed insignificant and insufficient, but how many of you know that God can used the insignificant and insufficient to get his job done? God can take the least and make it become the greater.

Whenever they would go to look for David, they knew that they would find him being consistence, loyal and faithful to the cause. They knew that wherever he was, he was doing the will of his father. And my question to someone this morning is that can your father depend on you to do his will? My question is can we be dependable, commitment and faithful regardless of how lowly the position might be?

I ask this question because I believe that we our viewpoint is quite different from God’s viewpoint. I believe that our observation of people and how God observe others are totally different.

I believe this because the man who was considered to be of least of the pack, those brothers who thought of David to be the weakest, the frailest, the puniest and unimportance of all, is now about to become the most important of them among all.

And I think that I need to tell somebody this morning that I think that we ought to be careful of who we put down, because God might be lifting them up. We might ought to be careful who we are pushing to the back, because God just might be pulling them to the front. Because he is a God that know how to promote, elevate and raise up those who we might consider the least.

Do you remember 1st Samuel chapter 16 when it said “And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel”? He said fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. 2

And Samuel said, how can I go? If Saul hear of it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD. 3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee. And the

bible said 4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spoke unto him and went to Bethlehem. It is said that as he was enter the town that the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, I hope that you have come peaceably? 5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. Watch what happens.