Dear Friends,
People tend to interact with you based on your past or present – if your past has been questionable, they tend to avoid you, but if you are doing well, well-placed and resourceful (present) then they befriend you. But not so with God. He does not value you based on how good or bad, successful or unsuccessful you were in the past or where you are now. What He wants you to know is where you can be if you will trust and walk with Him.
God gave a dream to Joseph and fulfilled it because he was faithful to Him. Joseph was a nobody; just a kid when he saw that dream. But he held on to it even when his father chided him and his brothers tried to get rid of him. He did not lose faith when he was sold as a slave or when he was put in prison. God made that dream come true even when people and circumstances were against him (Genesis 37, 39-41).
King Saul was a nobody when he was given the honour to become the first king of Israel. But he gradually lost his kingship and subsequently, his life. All because he started looking at life through the lens of “how to please people and protect his kingdom” forgetting that it was God who gave the kingdom to Him and only He could safeguard it. Even though Saul recruited strong men into his army, tried to get rid of David (a perceived threat) and pleased people, none of them were able to save him or his kingdom (1 Samuel 9-15).
Friends are good and necessary but they cannot save the day when Jesus is not your best
friend (John 15:13-16).
Yours in Christ