Wednesday – History

Reading – 1 Chronicles 10-12

Highlight Verse:

“God forbid that I should drink this!” he exclaimed. “This water is as precious as the blood of these men who risked their lives to bring it to me.” So David did not drink it. These are examples of the exploits of the Three.”
‭‭1 Chronicles‬ ‭11‬:‭19‬ ‭NLT‬‬

The first time I read this I thought, “How rude. These guys risked their lives for this water and David just pours it out.”

I now realize that David was making sure his warriors knew who was really worthy of their sacrifice.

He poured out the water before the Lord that they would know that it was God who was worthy, not him.

Would I have done the same?

Well, I’ve never had someone risk their life to get me a drink of water.

But I have had people complement me.

While I want to continue doing things worthy of compliments, what is more important to me is that I would direct people to the One who is truly worthy of all praise.

My hope is that my life would cause people to want to follow Jesus, not me.

Do people know that the good things you are doing are directing them to Jesus?
What are ways that your words and actions would deflect their praise to Jesus?