I Samuel 16:1
"Now the Lord said to Samuel, 'How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.'"
How many times do I need to hear this message? Don't mourn over what God has taken away--keep your head up and see the new direction in which He's leading you. Unfortunately, things aren't as direct for us as they were for Samuel. Can you imagine if God said to you "I am sending you to Hottie McHotterson the Arlingtonite"? I would love the clarity, but alas... Even without the obvious direction, the lesson is still obviously there: Don't miss the open door God has for you because you are so worried about the one that He has just shut. In applying hindsight to this passage, the closed door of a self-centered, man-pleasing king was no loss compared to the opened door of a man after God's own heart (Acts 13:22, I Sam 13:14).
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