Read the transcript from today's video devotional.
What a powerful verse. Do you really believe that? I would just love to give you a little bit of context. This is actually David's prayer in response—King David's prayer in response to God telling him that his throne will be established forever. This is his overwhelming response, his reflection back on his life. He was thinking, goodness, I was a simple shepherd. Have you had those moments where you reflect back? It's like, oh wow, the good old days of when I was doing this back then, and how God has brought me along.
God Chooses the Unexpected
This is David's response. If you think about it, other religions, other belief systems, other gods that people talk about—when would a simple shepherd be the one that God picks out of anybody to say, you're the guy? If you look all throughout Scripture, you have Moses who went before God, when God said, Moses, you're the guy. I've picked you. He said, Lord, I can't even talk well. How am I going to go before Pharaoh and lead Your people?
I love how God chooses to use each one of us. That's the beauty of this verse, when we step back and looking at Scripture. God gets such a bad rap for the Old Testament and other things that are in Scripture. I would just encourage you to take a step back from all of it. Take a fresh look at God, because when it says, "LORD, there is no one like You, we have never even heard of another God like You"—if you actually look at Scripture and look at the story of God, I think you will find the same thing.
A God Who Doesn't Make Sense—In the Best Way
There's a lot of things in Scripture that just don't make sense, and not the way the world may say, but actually it just doesn't make sense. Because quite frankly, if I were an all-powerful, holy, mighty, majestic God, I would not look at David and say, I want to use you as a pastor. There's no way I would do that. If you look back at all throughout history in the way God chooses to love us, just the fact that He loves us alone—you know, people point at Noah and the Ark and some of the other stories and say, I don't want any part of that God.
I look at it when I take a step back and say, every other God that people talk about would do much worse, where there is no patience, and there is no love. Then they look at it and say, this is the God that I know is all powerful, and obey, and iron fist and—goodness. You see people on earth who are put in positions of leadership—and when they say absolute power corrupts, God isn't corrupted. He has the ultimate power of the universe, and He chose to sacrifice His Son for you and for me.
Take Time to Be Overwhelmed by His Love
Wow. I just hope if there's anything that you take away from this verse today, I hope you're able to take some time and actually take a step back, because there are people that are coming to Jesus because they're understanding that their God, that they've worshiped for all their lives, there was no love, and they actually understood and felt the heaviness and weight and overwhelming power of the love of God.
I would just encourage you to not just read this verse, but allow God in His glory, in His love and His majesty and His holiness to overwhelm you today, to be able to see there is no one like Him. He loves you right where you're at, and that is an amazing God that loves us where we're at and is willing to pursue us, being the holy, righteous God that He is. It doesn't make sense, but that's the beauty of it.
Take some time with Him. Celebrate who He is today. That's what our Verse of the Day is all about.
