On preaching 1 Samuel 16:1-13
...don’t you see what point II [God stoops to our fears] tells you about God? These little, scrawny
verses, this mere conversation between God and his prophet? See how God takes
notice of and addresses Samuel’s fears? He does not mock or ridicule him or
tell him he’d never make a decent rugby player. He doesn’t jeer at him for
trembling before Saul’s sword (cf. Psalm 103:14). Is he not the same God with
us? Does he not understand what terrifies us? Perhaps the fear that we’ll not
be saved at the last because we have no assurance of salvation now? Or are you
alone in the world and wonder who is going to care for you when darker days
come? Though you are one of Christ’s flock, do you have a terror of dying? Have
you a spouse who is abandoning you and you can’t imagine how you will get on? Do
you see Samuel’s God? He does not despise you in your fears but stoops down to
meet you in them.
Dale Ralph Davis in The Word Made Fresh, page 124
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