Today on Summit Life with J.D.

J. Grieer.

So when God is choosing his leaders, he's not saying, wow, great dresser, I need that guy,

impressive resume, I need her, stunning IQ, look at how tall and strong that guy is,

he doesn't look any of there. He looks here

because he's looking for somebody who will listen to him and let his spirit work through

him. We're not supposed to find identity security and happiness apart from him. we're supposed to find him in him. Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer, I'm your host Molly Vittevich.

Today, Pastor J.D. finally introduces us to the person of David.

You say, it's about time, let's get this story going.

But David's first appearance is hardly a commanding one.

He is overlooked before being quietly anointed as king and then seemingly forgotten immediately

afterwards.

That was a tough experience for David, but it provides an important pattern for us.

Most of us have gone through periods where we felt

like God had forgotten us. What we'll learn however is that those moments when

God seems completely absent, those blank spaces often turn out to be the places where God does his most transformative work.

So let's join Pastor J.D. now in the book of First Samuel Chapter 16.

I have an idea for a book that I might try to write over the next year if I can

free up the time. I'm going to call it the blank spaces. My daughters will be disappointed that it's not a reflection on my favorite Taylor Swiss song for all of you T Swizzle fans out there, but it's about those little spaces in the Bible, little spaces in the Bible that I call blank spaces.

They're between narrative sections in the Bible where all the activity seemingly stops.

There's one right in the chapter we're going to look at today.

Sometimes those blank spaces represent large gaps of time.

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