I Am So Glad God Does The Seeing…
1 Samuel 16:7-12 (Amplified Bible)
7But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart. 8Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. But Samuel said, Neither has the Lord chosen this one. 9Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. Samuel said, Nor has the Lord chosen him. 10Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, The Lord has not chosen any of these. 11Then [he] said to Jesse, Are all your sons here? [Jesse] said, There is yet the youngest; he is tending the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send for him; for we will not sit down to eat until he is here. 12Jesse sent and brought him. David had a healthy reddish complexion and beautiful eyes, and was fine-looking. The Lord said [to Samuel], Arise, anoint him; this is he.
When my daughter and I walked into a pet store about three years ago, we were just going to look, I had lost my black Pomeranian Silas, and my heart was broken. My goal was when I healed to get a dog as close to what Silas looked like as possible. But this day when we walked into the pet store there were no black Pomeranians they had one that was multicolored, and this other little Pomeranian puppy that was quietly sitting in the corner. She was tannish in color with a white undercoat. I was unimpressed, she did not look like Silas, but when my daughter asked to sit and hold the pup there was something about this puppy that was special and reduced my daughter to tears. Although the pup was quiet and serene to us, there was something about her that drew us in. As I sat and watched my daughter with this puppy something within me was touched, and the healing that I thought that would never come over Silas’ death began in those moments. You see I thought the next puppy I got had to be what I imagined, what I thought was best for my situation, but my healing came through a pup that looked nothing like it should have, or so I thought. Sheba is the most protective, insanely funny member of our family.
How funny we are, we have an image, we have an idea of what things should like, but seldom is what we have built up in our mind what God is trying to do, or trying to use to bring us out, deliver us, or heal us. I remember when God began to use me in ministry and to grow me in the words of wisdom, knowledge and prophetic works I had a nose ring and an asymmetrical haircut. I was nothing like what people in “Church” would look at as usable and definitely not anointed. Just like David was not the one on the outside that most would have looked at and thought He was to be anointed King, many of us are not being accepted into the “Beloved” of ministry or into certain areas of church or ministry because we do not look the part or we do not fit the bill that people have framed in their minds that we should look like. Some of the most anointed people that I have met, or a departure from the norm. My Bishop, My Pastor and My Spiritual Father, is not the normal man of God. He is transparent, off beat, he will walk over chairs to get to someone that God wants him to ministry to, he is what some would even say is crazy. He is a comedian and nothing is off limits for Him, He will call it as He sees it. He even looks like TI. He and Elder Val are not the typical; they are the obscure, the abnormal. But they are the very chosen and the very elect of God. They are no one to be toyed with or trifled with because God has his hands on them. To spite what people have said about them and how God has given them to run our “Movement;” God saw them, appointed them and anointed them!
As I look over my walk and the journey that I have had with God, I am ever so grateful and so thankful that God does the seeing. Because God sees what man often misses. He sees our heart and our spirit. He sees what He has breathed into us and ordained for our lives. He looks passed the tattoos, the piercings, the haircuts and the clothes to the heart and the very nature of the individual. I think Marvin Sapp put it best, He said, “He saw the best in me, when everyone else around could only see the worse in me. He’s mine and I am His it doesn’t matter what I did, He only sees me for who I am!” We need to be careful who we turn up our noses at for we never know where our deliverance or victory is coming from…When we miss the mark in the eyes of people what matters most is that God is doing the ultimate seeing and the ultimate decision making and the ways to be made lie with Him, not man!
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