Learn to work with the appointed season of God, not the season you find convenient. In addition, learn to seize every opportunity that comes your way to do service for God or the cause of humanity. Always remember that if you waste an opportunity, you may never get it back or may have to wait for a long time for a second chance.
God is not only jealous; His name is Jealous as well! The dictionary gives several ideas of what it means to be jealous. I like the one that says to be jealous is to be “intolerant of rivalry or unfaithfulness”. God will not accommodate a rival.
God has graciously put before us men and women with different skill-sets, spiritual exposures, and life experiences. Many of them will be eager to feed us from their repertoire of knowledge to make our quest less tedious. It pays to listen to wise and mature counsel.
This brings us to the incredible power of music. When an evil spirit tormented Saul, recommendation was made that someone with musical ability be brought. David was the candidate that fitted the slot.
Honour and promotion are also the aftermath of the graces of God. When God magnifies a person or a place He turns what is ordinary to super-ordinary. Take two examples for consideration. Joshua began his career under the prophet Moses.
Divine graces are varied and many. By them we have forgiveness of sin, healings for our bodies, provisions as well as protection. The important lesson to take to heart is that we cannot dictate how God will administer these graces.
It is an error of generalization to think that bad things happen to people solely because of the wrong they have committed. In a sense bad things will follow sinful life. But it is not in all cases.
Many of us will go up in arms if accused wrongly. Perhaps we can learn something from Jesus and show more understanding. Those who accuse you wrongly may be dealing with some undisclosed frustrations.
It is a human tendency to parry blames, and that is unhelpful. The way to make progress in life is to accept mistakes and fix them.
In our text we see the need to protect the heart diligently. One way to do this is to never allow anything to go in there that has the tendency of corrupting it. Until you win the internal corruption war, you can never win the corruption war outside.
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