Your gentleness has made me great.

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Your gentleness has made me great.

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Posted on: 4th Jun 2014

 

ScreenHunter_30 Sep. 07 20.55.gif2 Samuel 22:35-37 (New King James Version)

 35 He teaches my hands to make war,
      So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

 36 ï¿½You have also given me the shield of Your salvation;
      Your gentleness has made me great.

 37 You enlarged my path under me;
      So my feet did not slip.

 

Reflections:

The above is a small portion of a song (psalm) that David wrote. Emotionally captured by God�s faithfulness, provision, protection, strength and mercy, this song reaches its pinnacle when David proclaims, ï¿½Your gentleness has made me great�.

 

What was this �gentleness� that made David so great that even God Himself testified of him that �he (David) was a man after God�s own heart (Acts13:22)?� Well, let�s look at this word �gentleness.�

 

Gentleness (humility, meekness) in the Hebrew also carries with it a condescendence by God. This means that God voluntarily descended to a level regarded as lower than Himself in order to do something very special for David.

 

David in his awful despair looked to God and offered to Him a continual sacrifice of thanksgiving, praise and worship. Of course God, as He always does, out-gave David and imparted a portion of His very own gentleness to him.  This imparted gentleness from God is what made David a great, great man and king of all Israel.

 

What David is really saying in this verse is that, �This is not about me God -- what I�ve become is all about You! Thank You for Your gift of gentleness. It has brought about a greatness I don�t even deserve (but I�ll take it -- and use it for Your glory).

 

The question this morning is will we also (like David) avail ourselves to this fruit of the Holy Spirit (Gal 5:22) and use it for God�s glory? �

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