Hey, saints, there is a lot of talk today about being “purpose-driven.” Personally, over the years, I have had very little problem with being “purpose driven,” but I have always struggled with being “spirit led.”
David didn’t struggle with being “purpose driven,” it was being “spirit led” that he battled with as well. Listen to James in chapter 4:13-15 when he admonishes us, saying, “Come now, you who say, today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit,” whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”
We see this in David’s journey to Hebron. Hebron was the capital city at the time for the tribe of Judah; it was a priestly city, but even in this David does not assume to know where the Lord would place him. Take it from me, Christian, it is a good thing to seek the Lord for “deployment” and not for appointments.
Furthermore, Hebron was the city given to the patriarchs, “Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” Thus, Hebron was a city that came to symbolize God’s promises being fulfilled. Ah, but God never led those fellows to that city until they stopped trying to get their own on! Hey saint, could it be that we fail to move into God’s glorious promises in our lives because we continue to do so in our own power rather than saying, “Shall I go up…Where shall I go up?”
Here’s where I’m going with this: God wants to lead us into His promises for our lives, and we continue trying to obtain them. We want them our way, on our terms, in our time frame, but then they would not be a gift from God; they would be something purchased through the works of the flesh, and God wants just to bless us, not be a debtor to us.