Understanding Your Assignment
1 Samuel 18:1-4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
1WHEN DAVID had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own life. 2Saul took David that day and would not let him return to his father's house. 3Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own life.4And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, even his sword, his bow, and his girdle.
Just recently I was listening to a message by Bishop Jakes and within that message he said “Sometime you have to give up the right to be right, because the battle was not your assignment; you were not sent to fight. We have to be on a mission to get the job done not fight against division.” When I heard that all I could do was say “whew.” It made me think of my own life and individuals I knew were an assignment and the spirit of division had come and that became the focus rather than the assignment. It made me also think about my brother who knows his assignment and no matter what he and the person to whom his assignment is, no matter how much they may disagree or not see eye to eye on matters, he sticks to the assignment, he never lest that deter him from working on the assignment.
All too often we bow down to our emotions instead of the Spirit of God in our lives. Yes it is true we are flesh, and we are human and we have human emotions, but what we succumb to is often what is strongest in our lives. Bishop Jones said in a recent sermon, that “emotions have little to do with this journey and little to do with the assignments God gives us.” All too often we the spirit of division will rise up I a relationship that is an assignment to become a distraction from what God is calling and asking us to do. But we have to work through the visuals and get to what is most important, which is the assignment for which we have been knitted in a person’s life for. We get caught up in what we think we see what we think we know and what we think we understand, forgetting all about what God has said our assignment in the life of the individual is to be. As in the book of Nehemiah, people allowed distractions and attacks to bring them down off the wall and to keep them from God’s intended purpose and call which was after all to rebuild the wall.
What assignment have you come down off of? What person have you allowed the spirit of division and the battle of disagreement to become a part of your relationship? What have you let come in to push you out or break the knitting of hearts that God established for you to complete your assignment? Many times bitterness, anger, wrath, strife, lack of understanding, selfishness, disbelief and so many other elements come in to attempt to destroy the assignment, because all of these things are not based in the love that it takes to complete the assignment. The love for the one who is sending you and the love for the act of obedience and even the love for the person that we are supposed to have regardless of whether we like everything about them or not. Today is a great day to get back on the wall and to finish what God sent you to do. Remember in completing the assignment I never said disagreement would not come, I never said challenges, battles and fights would not happen, but remember what is it that God sent you into that arena or to that person for in the first place?
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