The Anointing

David's evidently a key figure in the Bible (last verses) and YET when we first meet him…he's so unimportant that he's totally disregarded… like Cinderella. In the next weeks we hope to see him as David, the shepherd, the musician and the warrior. But today, he's just the overlooked kid no one regarded – this introduction tells us that with God we should expect the unexpected.

Most people only see what they expect to see – even Samuel the Prophet expects the expected – he has preconceived notions of greatness. AND we too have our views (inherited from our cultures) of what a winner should look like… BUT THAT is the big take-away from this passage: what does strength look like? How do we gauge success; what are we looking for?

What's our perspective? How important are the unseen aspects of a person's character – how deeply do our eyes penetrate and what impresses us as we walk through this life? I'll tell the story and draw three conclusions: how this episode leads to

1. PRO-vision,
2. Clear-Vision and
3. Night-vision.