What is the Purpose of Your Life?

Psalm 55:9-19

A purpose-driven life, but whose purpose yours or God’s?  We understand David was a long way from perfect, and when he messes up and seeks his own purpose one wonders how God could call David, a man after God’s heart, and he does such things?  We see in David’s life, a man who looks to God as his source, and he learned to do so at a young age, keeping his dad’s sheep.  While alone as the shepherd of those sheep, he killed both lion and bear to keep his father’s sheep safe. 

When he faced Goliath his time of training in those early days paid off, look at the account in 1 Samuel 17:45-47.  Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.  This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hand.”

David had no fear when he battled the enemies of God, but now it’s not a Goliath, it is someone he trusted, someone he worships and that is out to destroy him.  But David has a place of refuge, and you will find that in verse 16, “But I call to God, and the LORD will save me.”  I’ve always said none of us ever have more than three friends we would call at 3am in the morning and know they would take our calls, for John 15:15 tells us He calls us friends.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice