Get the vision!
Like a good Georgia Bulldog fan I have a devotional book about all things DAWG. This morning I was reading about Proffesor Steadman Sanford(Sanford Stadium is named for him). The devotion talked about how he in the 1920’s was walking in the property owned by the University, and he walked on an area that seemed totally useless. It was used at time as a shooting range by the Corp of Cadets. It was a valley that was covered in trees and thick undergrowth. At that time the University was looking for a place to build a stadium for the football team; he envisioned in that valley the possibility for a grand stadium to host football games. Because of his vision UGA now has one of the most beautiful stadiums in the NCAA that not only hosts Georgia football games, but was also used as a venue in the 1996 Summer Olympics. Everyone considered this piece of property useless, but because Proffesor Sanford had this vision UGA now has a stadium that is rivaled by most of college football.
Visions are very important to us as human beings, and when God gives us a vision then we should hold fast to that, and watch as He does something that we can only imagine. We read in I Samuel 16 that God sent the prophet Samuel to Bethlehem to anoint the king that He had chosen for Israel from the sons of Jesse.
When the first son of Jesse came before Samuel he thought to himself, “… Surely the Lord’s annointed is before Him. But the Lord said to Samuel ‘Do not look at his appearance or his height of stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.'”(Ch. 16:6-7) One by one all of Jesse’s sons came before the prophet, and they were all rejected by God. Finally, Samuel asked Jesse if that was all of his sons, and Jesse said, “… There remains the youngest, and behold he is tending sheep…”(v.11) Can you imagine that? His own father thought so little of David that he did not even think he needed to be around for this occasion. But, Samuel said bring him here, because the Lord has rejected all of these. (My paraphrase) So Jesse sent for David. We read in verse 12, So he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him for this is he.”
As the youngest we can assume that David was the smallest, and most ill-prepared of all his brothers to be anoinnted king, but he was the one God chose because God does not see what we are, but He sees what we can be. God would rather have one person who is totally sold out to His vision than a hundred people who are only half-heartedly serious. One person plus God is a majority!
ICorinthians 1:26-28, “For consider your calling, brethren that there were not many wise, according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things to shame those that are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised; God has chosen things that are not, to nullify the things that are.”
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