IN AN ENDLESS TRADITON OF GOD' WORD AND THE MIRACULOUS
To hear the words above said by teenagers would literally mean a time period they would hasten to arrive if they have the chance or should I say choice to make the change. If it were to be said by the aged, it would mean probably mean a whisper that ordinarily lets itself out if not willed, or a vapor, caught by the eye for a moment, only to disappear into the air.
What about if it were to be heard from the lips of the proud who would only bask in the idiocy of personal gain in order to ride over the weak? What if it grazed the mouth of the self-pitied in search for more pity to justify personal failures?
But listen closer.
Feel the power stemming from the simplicity of such everyday words. This time these words were said by the least expected of the mass. If anyone were to utter a word, you wouldn't have thought of this individual. It came from the lips of a man whose heart resembled that of a teen; a man whose beard definitely matched the aged. Here spoke a man whose life's conquest calls for his every word to be edged with pride; a man who could have trodden the path of the self-pitied in search for God's own heart.
Yet, if you read closely, and listen deeper, as deep calls to deep, the first thing that strikes you in this passage is humility.
All the days of my life!
"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God."
I don't know if you can see that in the phrase. It echoes powerfully a humbled man who knows his days are not in his hands but in the hands of the Giver of Life.
So, here it is! The lips of the least expected have declared it! The humbled have spoken the same words but yet it sounds different!
You may owe your life's work and all that you are to yourself, and I have to tell you, what a load of work you must have put into it, but David knew different. He owed his life to someone else. With his eyes looking up in worship, and his hands outstretched in complete surrender, we have a model to emulate. Remember we were commanded to look unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith! Why not follow the footsteps of a man after God's own heart?!
Therefore, when you seem to have it all, and know it all, and overcame, unlike any other, whatever stress and strife;
Do take a step back and give honor to the one who gives honor, and gaze at the one who exalts the humbled, by pledging allegiance to Him,
all the days of your life.
…Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life…
The Prisoner of Christ!
