Becoming More: In my walk

When David was handpicked by God to become King, I assumed he would be sent right away to take his place. But that wasn’t true. God anointed David … and then sent him back to the fields that He found him in. David went back to being a shepherd, even though he knew he was going to be a king! He didn’t know when … but he waited patiently. He had faith that God was using his time as a shepherd to prepare him for whatever he was going to do.

And, surely enough, when no one wanted to face Goliath, David stepped up. King Saul was disappointed that a young, shepherd boy was wanting to fight Goliath but David appealed to him, “Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them … The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine." (1 Samuel 17:34-37).

God had used that time to prepare David. David was a boy, a child.

So how come he seems to have been more together than me?

Jesus is another prime example. He came into our world as the King, the Messiah. But He lived life as a common carpenter. God, the Creator of the universe, led a common life until he was thirty years old.

For thirty years, Jesus waited.

If either were like us, they would have been complaining the whole time about how they wanted to be in the "next stage” of life – living for tomorrow, dreaming about the future. But they didn’t. Both knew God had a plan for where they were – a reason for what they were doing. Even if it is tending sheep - or making tables.

For me, becoming more in my walk with God is developing a trusting patience. A knowing that God has put me where He wants me. My job is to pursue Him and His will where I am at … and try to learn what is set before me. I will probably need it for what might be coming next. That means reading my Bible, learning about Him through prayer and petition, and developing our relationship.