In my devotions today I was looking at the life of David. In 1 Sam 7:8-27, we find a marvelous story of David wanting to build a temple for the Lord. His desire was to have a central location for worship of the Lord. As he was preparing for the task the Lord told him he could not build it. When he inquired about this, the Lord told him that he had spilled to much blood in his life time. Now for most most this would have discouraged them to the point that they would have moved on to another task. David however was not like most men. He looked at this setback as an opportunity for growth.
David immediately spent the rest of his lifestime doing a work of preparation. David gathered material to build the temple. It was David who drew up the plans for the temple and he also gave much of his personal fortune to the project. David look at this setback as an opportunity. Many times in our own lives we face setbacks and problems and how we face them is very important. We can be like many and fume and fuss and take our ball home so to speak or we can grow and become better because of them. Our view and attitude is so important. One of my favorite saying is, "Attitude is everything in the things of God." One of my present board members says, "Attitude is the only thing." Setbacks and problems are God's tools of refinement. How they refine us depends on us.
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