Person: Jesse
Reading: 1 Sam. 16:1-13
Symbols: crimson robe, shepherd's staff
And today we meet Jesse, the father of David, the ancestor to Jesus. Another foreshadowing: What was David? A shepherd. And what do we call Jesus? The Lamb of God. The Good Shepherd. God must love symbolism!
It’s today that we hear God tell Samuel, “Do not judge from his appearance or from his lofty stature, because I have rejected him. Not as man sees does God see, because man sees the appearance but the LORD looks into the heart.”
Not by Hollywood or glamor magazine standards are we to be judged, but by the faithfulness and love in our hearts. That is what’s important. That is how God judges. Therefore, I will spend today looking past the faces I meet and try to peek into the heart of the person.
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