God opinion

Get God?s Opinion! (1)
'...The Lord does not look at the things man looks
at...' 1 Samuel 16:7
David's father didn't think he was qualified to be
Israel's next king. So when Samuel came looking
for a successor to King Saul, he presented his
oldest son Eliab, who was a general in the army.
Samuel was impressed. '...Samuel saw Eliab and
thought, "Surely the Lord's anointed stands
here..." But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not
consider his appearance or his height, for I have
rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things
man looks at. Man looks on the outward
appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart'' (vv.
6-7 NIV). When it comes to your life's calling, only
one opinion counts-God's! In order to fulfil his
destiny, David had to overcome his family's
opinion of him. One author writes, 'Any time you
see people pursuing a mid- life career change, you
can be almost certain that they have been living
someone else's dream and lost their way.' Nobel
Prize winner for literature Joseph Brodsky
observed, 'One's task consists first of all in
mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or
prescribed from without, no matter how noble its
appearance may be. For each of us is issued but
one life, and we know full well how it all ends. It
would be regrettable to squander this one chance
on someone else's appearance, someone else's
experience.' It's not too late to become what God
wants you to be, and do what He wants you to do.
If you've been living somebody else's dream, ask
God for a dream of your own and He will give it to
you