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Get Over It!
7/3/22
Scripture: 1 Samuel 16:1-4
16 Now the Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?
Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite.
For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.”
2 And Samuel said, “How can I go?
If Saul hears it, he will kill me.”
But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’ 3 Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; you shall anoint for Me the one I name to you.”
4 So Samuel did what the Lordsaid and went to Bethlehem.[1]
“How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?
Fill your horn with oil, and go;
“Get Over It”
The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of our God shall stand forever (Isa.
40:8)
I was having a conversation with one of my coworkers, and we both agreed that life changes once you cross into your fifties.
You now realize that you can’t eat everything you used to eat, (Matter of fact, I carry some baking soda in my lunch box and anywhere else)
· At fifty-nine, I don’t stay up all night; I like to sleep and don’t even want to work the night shift if a day position is open.
· At fifty-nine, I don’t even get out the house after 8 pm, and if you don’t watch it, I’ll be in bed by 9 pm
· At fifty-nine, I noticed that things take turns hurting in the morning, and you can’t even figure out what you did to make your back hurt
· At fifty-nine, I have to stretch before I workout
· At fifty-nine, I’ve been tested for things at the doctor that I was never tested for in my 30s
· At fifty-nine, some things that used to live upstairs now have moved downstairs and will not go back to where things used to be
· At fifty-nine, I realized sixty is knocking at my front door, and things are changing
· At fifty-nine, I could be careless, and if I got something to say, I am going to say it whether it hurts your feelings or not.
· At fifty-nine, I don’t hang out with everybody, and if I got two good friends, I’ll be alright
· At fifty-nine, I don’t let suntan folk raise my blood pressure and put me in an early grave.
I’m trying to be like Dorothy ease on down, ease on down the road, ease on down the road.
· I’ve learned to just deal with people as they are.
· But there is one group of people who get on my nerves: people who can’t drive.
· I don’t like people who see me trying to merge on the highway, and they refuse to get over
· Or people who get in the left lane and refuse to move over
· I don’t like people who set at the right light, and it has turned from green to yellow and to red all the time while I am behind you blowing my horn, and you give me the wave-like okay, I am going
· I don’t like people who see the sign that this lane will end in two miles and wait till the last moment to try to move over and cut me off.
· There is nothing worse than being behind someone who doesn’t know when it’s time to move on
· It’s nothing more frustrating than being connected to someone who can’t discern when the light of life has changed and it’s time for you to move forward from where you are
· It’s frustrated to be connected to folk who doesn’t know that it’s time to move forward from where you are
· Some of y’all might think I am still talking about a red light, but I am talking about life; it’s nothing worse than being connected to someone who still is sitting at a green light.
Someone who cannot discern when God has changed the signal of life, and he is trying to move you into something greater, something better, and you are stuck right where you are.
· Life is littered with people stuck at green lights
· If you don’t know one, let me introduce you to one right here in 1 Samuel.
His name is Samuel, and to understand how Samuel got stuck, you have to rewind back to 1 Samuel 8
In 1 Samuel 8, Israel has demanded a king, they had been at war with the Philistines, and God was reluctant to give them a king because now they wanted a man to do what God had been doing for them all the time.
o Let me just say -- Can’t nobody take care of you like God!
The people of Israel press and press, and they want to be like the other nations
· So, God relents and gives them a king, and his name is Saul; and from the very beginning, Saul has been nothing but a problem!
· He is always doing what God told him not to do and not doing what God called him to do!
By the time you get to chapter 15, God is fed up with Saul.
--- God gave pacific instruction that when you conquer the Amalekites to wipe out everything, but Saul spared King Agag and its riches at the end of chapter 15, God says I am done.
One of the saddest verses:
I Samuel 15:35: 35 And Samuel went no more to see Saul until the day of his death.
Nevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul, and the Lordregretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.[2]
· God regretted Saul --- can you hear the divine disappointment
The one thing I don’t want God to say about me --- that He regretted
· Blessing me
· He regretted waking me up
· Regretted favoring me
· Regretted giving me grace
· Regretted answering my prayers, Lord, let my life never be a regret in your eyes!
God regrets Saul, and as a result, the Bible says Samuel begins to mourn!
· He is grieved about Saul
In Chapter 16: God shows up, finds a grieving Samuel, taps him on the shoulder, and says Samuel, I got a question for you?
· How long are you going to sit here crying over Saul?
· How long are you going to be sad and sorrowful about a season that has come to an end?
· How long are you going to weep and wail over what was and not realize that better is waiting
· How long?
· How long are you going are you going to be pitiful and pathetic and not realize there is a promise
· How long are you going to be broke, busted, and discussed, tore up from the floor up about what you have been through?
· How Long are you going to sit here and mourn over Saul?
The reason God is so divinely disappointed in Samuel is because He has already prepared the next king --- his name is David; he is down in Bethlehem.
But David’s day cannot begin until Samuel stops mourning over Saul, gets up, and go down to Bethlehem to, where God has called him to be
God says:
· There’s something I got in-store for you
· I have something waiting for you
· I got something down there
· But you have got to stop crying over what was your yesterday; you got to get over it!
· Because what I have for you cannot begin until you stop crying about what ain’t no more!
I am pulling up on somebody bumper of life, slightly tapping my horn, and waving my hand to let you know that God has changed the light in your life!
· God has something.
He is calling you into old things have passed away; behold, all things are about to become new!
· God has changed --- the light!
· How long are you going to sit here when God’s got David waiting on you?
Watch this, so the Lord says this is what I need you to do:
· Number one, I need you to get over it; I need you to get over Saul
When the Lord shows up, Samuel is grieving?
· What are you holding on to that God has said?
Let it go
· What are you grieving over, and God has told you to “Get Over It”?
I have something better.
Samuel is going through the grieving process of mourning Saul, but here is the problem.
· Saul is not dead; he is right here
· How can you mourn for someone who is not dead?
Here it is --- He’s not mourning Saul, but he is mourning the investment of himself that he made in Saul that will now bring no return on his investment!
· Have you ever poured so much time and energy into something or someone to watch it die?
Everything Saul was he owed to Samuel!
· Samuel knew God was calling him before he knew God was calling him
· Samuel was the one who revealed the things of God in Saul’s life
· Samuel laid hands on Saul
· Samuel prayed over Saul
· Samuel anointed him with oil
· Everything Saul was he owed to Samuel
Samuel had poured his all into Samuel, and now he realizes he will never be what he hoped he would be.
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