ORDINARY to extraordinary
David’s story could be your story too Was David perfect? No. Did he fail in life at times? By Bradley Shotts Oh yes. But he kept his eyes on God and he cried I never imagined that I would experience in my out to God in times when he failed and allowed lifetime what I’m seeing unfold in the world we God’s grace to sustain him. live in today. It saddens me greatly to see so much When we move away from God and we take our division and hate. I think about those words that we eyes off of God, it is then that we begin to focus on all grew up reciting each morning in school as we our weaknesses and our failures, instead of being started each day, standing at the side of our desks instruments that God can successfully use. with our right hand over our heart: “One nation unThis world seems to have more Goliaths than der God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Davids right now. But there is a David inside all of Change starts with me. Change starts with you. us and we certainly need the Davids of our country We cannot wait any longer for someone else to step to arise and lead and set the example for others to up and do what is right. It is time for us to wake up follow. from our slumber and become courageous for God To be a true David and to be used of God may or and for our country. may not appeal to you. I mean, let’s just be honest Young David, in the Bible, is the perfect example with one another. There will come a day though of what I’m talking about. In reality, David was a when what you have done for God or what you very average boy. He was a shepherd. But David had have not done will become very important. In fact, something burning within him that was magnificent. Bradley Shotts I will even go as far as to say that it will be the most David had a deep passion for God. He was hunimportant thing to you above everything else. gry for God, he sought after God; he had a passion for the spiritual The reason is this: when we get to Heaven, what we have done for things, and he tried to please God despite his failures. This moved God while on Earth will mean absolutely everything to us. It will him from ordinary to extraordinary. We get hung up on our failures and our inadequacies. When David be the only thing that we will have to offer Jesus. It is the only thing that we will carry with us into Heaven. I don’t know about you, but I brought his brother’s lunch that day – they were soldiers in the Israel don’t want to stand before God empty-handed. army – and discovered that there was a giant of a man threatening *** the entire army of God, he very easily could have looked around him Father, may we have enough love and passion for You to say, “Use and joined in the fear of his peers. He could have thought to himself, me, Lord!” May it become a burning desire within us to serve You “What am I supposed to do? I’m just here to deliver lunch. I am just and be willing to do any task You set before us. Forgive us for becoma shepherd attending my flock. I certainly cannot do anything to help this situation. I’m headed back to the fields!” But David had the ing complacent in our lives. May we all turn to You and seek Your face and turn from our wicked ways. As your Word promises us, it is courage to do the extraordinary. then that You will forgive us, bring healing to our land, and Your ears David, under God’s power, single-handedly defeated Goliath, who will be attentive to our prayers. May the Davids come forth, in Jesus stood just under 10 feet tall. He did what an entire army could not. name. Amen. (2 Chronicles 7:14-15) n He also had what an army did not. He had faith in God. David grew into a great man of God, becoming king at the age of Bradley R. Shotts and his wife, Amy, grew up in Tyler, Texas. They have two 30, and he reigned for 40 years. He died at the age of 70, and on his children, Blaine and Braylee, and currently live in Bedford, Texas. Brad has death bed, what did he do? He counseled Solomon to walk in the served the Lord in ministry for 32 years in the funeral industry as a funeral direcways of God. King David knew that if Solomon followed God, he tor. He currently is the general manager for Forest Ridge Funeral Home Memorial would be successful in everything that he did and would accomplish Park Chapel in North Richland Hills, Texas. great things.
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