Things I’ve learned from 2 Samuel 9
-We are just like Mephibosheth.
-We deserve to have our thumbs and big toes cut off and have to beg for for food like a dog under God’s table.
-We must find comfort in the fact that we are a cripple at God’s table.
-We have nothing to offer God.
-God has given us all we have even though we don’t deserve it at all.
-We have to love the giver more than the gift.
-We must ask ourselves; when everything is taken away from us, how do we react? What if the healing never comes? What if you can’t finish what you started? What if your finances run out?
-We should be content with just being able to sit at God’s table.
-If our joy is found in our gifts then we can lose it.
-Our joy must be found in the giver.
-We are worthless.
-We are nothing.
-God is everything.
-We must totally submit to our king.
-We must not use our crippling as our identity.
-We must find our identity in Christ.
-It is not your crippling that defines you.
-God is the one that defines you.
-One day we will literally sit at the Lord’s table with Him.
-That should be enough for us.
-If you ambitions eclipse your want to see God, that’s a problem.
-We should not be afraid of death because we were given life.
-You couldn’t and can’t do this on your own.
-The only thing God wants is us. All of us. Every ounce of our being.
-God is not impressed by our gifts.
-He is not impressed by anything we do.
-He still loves us and wants us as we are.
-We must be happy and content with being able to be a cripple at God’s table just as Mephibosheth was one at David’s table.
