January 8

JESUS, KING DAVID & THE BAMBINO

Father, thank You for bringing me to this place and this time today. I ask You to speak to me right now, and to let Your Word breathe life into my heart. Please use these next few moments to bring me to more of a fullness of You and to learn more of Your Glory and how to leave the footprints of Jesus everywhere I go today. In Jesus Name I pray. Amen!

Read Psalm 110:1

We all have heroes. We all have people we look up to, and aspire to be. For some, these are people who greatly excel in their chosen field; be that business, or teaching, or music, or art. Others look to a sports figure. Still for others, it is someone we personally know who has overcome great obstacles. Then some idolize a superhero such as Superman or Batman. I am sure the Jewish people of Jesus’ day had several heroes; men like Noah, Abraham, Moses, Elijah. I have to believe that greater than all of these was King David.

There is a wonderful scene from the movie Sandlot where the main character, Smalls, meets the other boys and they start talking about Babe Ruth. Smalls has no clue who this is, and makes the grave mistake of asking who that is. I love what follows:

“What did he say? What, were you born in a barn, man?

Yeah, what planet are you from?......

……You never heard of the Sultan of Swat?

The Titan of Terror?

The Colossus of Clout? The Colossus of Clout!

The King of Crash.”

I really think that a similar scene may have taken place in and around Palestine at the time of Christ, had a young Jewish boy asked who King David was. The man who killed the lion with his hands! The one who killed his ten thousands! Killed a bear with his hands! Yeah, killed a bear with his hands! KILLED GOLIATH!

David was huge to these people. Yet what did Peter say when using this text on the day of Pentecost? He used this verse to show how Jesus was even greater and above King David.

Today leave His footprints by looking beyond whoever your hero may be, and looking instead to Jesus.

Leave His footprints as you walk today!