August 17
2018
Let it go
Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.” 1 Samuel 16:1
The Lord had moved on and Samuel was still holding on to the thing that was done.
Samuel mourned for Saul but God already had plans for a new king.
God had work for Samuel to do but he couldn’t do it while he was still mourning the old thing that was already done.
What are you holding onto today that is over and done with?
Are you mourning the “way things used to be”?
Are you peering backwards at the door that has already closed?
God has a work for you to do.
There is a new thing in the works.
But He can’t use you while you are still looking backward and mourning over what He has already declared done.
Turn your eyes forward and your ears upward to see the new thing that is coming and to hear what the Lord has for you to do.
And then, “Fill your oil and go!”