Everyone God Brings Your Way is Important

Everyone God Brings Your Way is Important

Scripture reading:  1 Samuel 9:1-10
Focus verse: 1 Samuel 9:3, 7-8 “Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. And Kish said to his son Saul, “Please take one of the servants with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys…………. Then Saul said to his servant, “But look, if we go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread in our vessels is all gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have? And the servant answered Saul again and said, “Look, I have here at hand one-fourth of a shekel of silver. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us our way.”
 

I have been in situations where people are treated as important based on their career, family lineage, jobs, race, sex etc. The society of today has a lot discrimination and has failed to recognize the importance of other people. Some churches give higher regards to members of good financial standing and don't fully regard words from the less privileged in their midst. Servants are treated as less important, people associate and get advice from those of their class. We fail to notice the potential of every person in our organizations and have become very discriminatory.
In this story that would later see Saul chosen and anointed as the first king of Israel, we see an important role played by the servant who accompanied Saul as he went to search for his father’s donkeys.  After three days of searching, they couldn’t get the donkeys and Saul loses hope and suggests that they return home since his father Kush could be getting worried about them too. The servant then advises Saul that in the city ahead is a seer who could help them know where the donkeys were. Saul is afraid to go because he didn’t have anything to give to the seer since it was a custom that you had to give something to a seer. Again, the servant tells him that he had some small money with him that they could give to the seer. By this, Saul get his way to the seer and little did he know that it was God sending him to the seer (Samuel). Samuel sees Saul and God reminds what he had spoken to him about this man who would visit him. By the end of the story, Saul is chosen by God as the first king of Israel and is anointed by Samuel.
How many times have we disregarded advice from our juniors or people not of our class? What do we look for in a man before we accept the teachings or advice they give to us? Who do we give the best seat in our meetings and why? How many times have we neglected the voice of God as He speaks to us through the children or servants just because we feel we are better or older than them? How do we select our leaders in our churches and what qualities do we consider? God says, Isaiah 55:8-7, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” 1 Samuel 16:7, But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

 Let us learn to see people in the mirror of God and regard everyone He brings our way as important. Let’s be careful lest we miss the things of God simply because we look at the person carrying them. Let the spirit of pride not to drive our lives but in humility consider the other person as better than us. God will always send his word, help or encouragement to our lives but sometimes it will come through a route you least expected. Let’s see things as God does and see everyone as an image and likeness of God.

Written by,
Eliazar Wambo
Pastor Makira Baptist Church & Director Bethesda Faith Ministries