PROVERBS 20:24.
Have you ever found yourself repeating the same tasks day after day? Did you ever wonder if you were wasting time doing what you kept doing each day/time?
I assume young David may have thought the same way too. Day after day he sat and watched sheep. This bored teenager found two ways to pass the time – practice with his slingshot and compose music.
How could he have known those dull, lonely years of shepherding would be the very thing to prepare him for his destiny?
God used David’s skill with a slingshot to launch him to fame and fortune when he killed Goliath. His reward was to marry the king’s daughter and never again pay taxes. From then on, everyone knew his name – he was elevated to a noble status.
God also used music to position David in the king’s court. His music career began in the palace, singing songs before a mentally troubled King Saul. His passion for worship would inspire him to one day bring the Arc back to Jerusalem and set up a Tabernacle of continuous worship. Finally those songs and poems would one day fill the book of Psalms, the finest poetic literature ever written, inspiring countless millions of people to worship God and know Him intimately.
God will use our skills, even the menial and tedious ones, to position us one day in our place of destiny. So do not get fed up, rather be encouraged.
