mentor who has been through a path guides
a young mentee through it to success, so
God guided David through a path of safety
to the throne as king of Israel.
A mentor is a trusted adviser, or coun-
sellor or guide; emphasis is on the word,
trusted. David trusted God more than he
trusted anyone. A few times he stated that
he trusted in the mercies of God. One time
David sinned in numbering Israel and
the Lord asked him to determine how he
wished to be judged; he chose to fall into
the hands of God rather than the hands of
men because he trusted God to have mercy
on him even in the midst of judgement.
The Bible records, “And the Lord spake unto
Gad, David's seer, saying, Go and tell David,
saying, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three
things: choose thee one of them, that I may do
it unto thee. So Gad came to David, and said
unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Choose thee
Either three years' famine; or three months to be
destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of
thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days
the sword of the Lord, even the pestilence, in
the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying
throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore
advise thyself what word I shall bring again to
him that sent me. And David said unto Gad,
I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the
hand of the Lord; for very great are his mercies:
but let me not fall into the hand of man.” (1
Chronicles 21:9-13).
David also knew things about God
that others did not know, and I believe it
was what he knew about God that gave him
the boldness to openly challenge Goliath.
Remember he said to Goliath, “I come
against you in the name of the God of Israel.” He
had a relationship with God, he knew God
on a personal level and knew the mightiness
of God or he would not have dared go out
against Goliath. The army of Israel did not
have the same knowledge or relationship
so they trembled before Goliath. Further-
more, David’s psalms reveal that he had a
pre-knowledge of the birth and death of
Jesus Christ.
God found David in the bush while he
cared for his father’s sheep. He mentored
him and chose him to be king over Israel;
a position that He (God) had previously
occupied, and I know this because when
Israel asked for a king; the Bible records,
“And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto
the voice of the people in all that they say unto
thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they
have rejected me, that I should not reign over
them.” (1 Samuel 8:7). Therefore, when David
became king of Israel, he, like Peter, Elijah,
Joshua and many others, also stepped into
his mentor’s shoes.
God was without any doubt David’s
mentor; He taught him, counseled him,
guided him and made him king over His
inheritance, Israel. He did not stop there
but made him the greatest of all the kings
of Israel and twenty-eight generations after
David, God’s son, Jesus, would come into
the world and be called, the son of David.
Eturuvie (AKA Gabriella) Erebor is a writer,
public speaker, trainer, coach and the Founder
of DOZ Network.
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