‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬Responsibility is the price we pay for access and greatness. Nowhere is this more spelt out than in David’s story. Assuming responsibility was a great factor in what David became. It began when he was mandated to keep the family’s few flocks. You will recall that on the day that Samuel came to look for Saul’s replacement, he was in the field. It is curious how his elder brothers were all at home while he was saddled with responsibility to watch the flocks. David was always ready to run errands for those in authority. He did it for his father, and in our text it played out under Saul. The passage in focus says David went everywhere Saul sent him.

Responsibility is the price we pay for access and greatness…When next you are given a responsibility, handle it as if your destiny depends on it.

I can imagine some of those errands were menial. They were not tasks that would put his name on the cover page of a glossy magazine. But he went all the same. It is also no stress at all to say that some of the assignments must have been risky too. The young man defied the odds and put his life on the line. He never complained as he went about carrying out the orders of his boss. Proving responsible was what took him to the battlefield. His father asked him to go and check on his three elder brothers at the frontline. He went; and that was when he chanced on the champion from Gath. We probably would not have heard of David if he refused to do his father’s bidding. We can add that both Joseph and Saul encountered destiny by accepting responsibility. When next you are given a responsibility, handle it as if your destiny depends on it.