Right on!! And somewhere in there is also the humility to be patient. Even if someone excels at these skills they may not (ever?) get/make the opportunity to be a senior leader.
Yes indeed--remember that David was anointed in chapter 16 of First Samuel... as a very young teenager most likely, and yet he did not become king over both Israel and Judah as anointed for until chapter 6 of Second Samuel, likely some 20 years later. He waited significantly longer for the promise to be actuated than he had lived up to the point he was anointed. And just remember all that happened to and through David in those years: he had his greatest personal victory (over Goliath), he made a best friend (Jonathan), he learned from a leader who did some things really well, but most thing very poorly, which no doubt influenced the way David would be as King. He also forged a band of brothers that would stick with him for his entire life (they even stayed with him when he betrayed two of them in the Bathsheba affair). He wrote some of the most important poetry (scriptures) ever penned from his angst and heartache and love of God. He got married. Had kids. He gained alliances outside of Israel which became important later. He was tested and grew--his character was forged in caves on the run far more than in the field with the sheep.
Waiting "on the bench" in life can be frustrating--but in some ways those years made David, and you might even say they were more important in multiple ways than anything he did as King.
Sometimes God does a whole awful lot through you and in you while "preparing"
Great wisdom!! Thanks!
Thanks, Anita
Right on!! And somewhere in there is also the humility to be patient. Even if someone excels at these skills they may not (ever?) get/make the opportunity to be a senior leader.
Yes indeed--remember that David was anointed in chapter 16 of First Samuel... as a very young teenager most likely, and yet he did not become king over both Israel and Judah as anointed for until chapter 6 of Second Samuel, likely some 20 years later. He waited significantly longer for the promise to be actuated than he had lived up to the point he was anointed. And just remember all that happened to and through David in those years: he had his greatest personal victory (over Goliath), he made a best friend (Jonathan), he learned from a leader who did some things really well, but most thing very poorly, which no doubt influenced the way David would be as King. He also forged a band of brothers that would stick with him for his entire life (they even stayed with him when he betrayed two of them in the Bathsheba affair). He wrote some of the most important poetry (scriptures) ever penned from his angst and heartache and love of God. He got married. Had kids. He gained alliances outside of Israel which became important later. He was tested and grew--his character was forged in caves on the run far more than in the field with the sheep.
Waiting "on the bench" in life can be frustrating--but in some ways those years made David, and you might even say they were more important in multiple ways than anything he did as King.
Sometimes God does a whole awful lot through you and in you while "preparing"