WHY WAS DAVID SUCCESSFUL?
Sometimes
when we observe a successful professional church musician we wonder what the
secret to this person's success really was.
How did the musician get started?
Was success the result of some special "break" in life or was
it based on the church musician's great talent?
What about David the "sweet psalmist of Israel?" Did you ever wonder what the secret to his
success really was? David's successes
were phenomenal. He became King of Judah
(II Sam. 2:4), King of Israel (II Sam. 5:3), developed and organized the system
of music for the first Temple (I Chron. 25:1-31), performed the first recorded
music therapy of the Bible on King Saul (I Sam. 16:14-23), wrote about half of
the "Book of Psalms" (see Chapter VI on the Psalms), killed a lion
and a bear (I Sam. 17:34-36) and killed the Philistine giant with a stone from
a sling (I Sam. 17:38-49).
A look
at the early life of the man who accomplished all these things reveals that he
had a very humble beginning. He was the
youngest of the eight sons of Jesse the Bethlehemite. In I Samuel chapter sixteen, Jesse had seven
of his sons to pass before Samuel for blessing to become King, but Samuel the
prophet knew immediately that God had refused them all. Verse eleven of that chapter says, "And
Samuel said unto Jesse, are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the
youngest, and, behold he keepeth the sheep." So, Jesse sent for his youngest red-haired
son. Verse twelve states, "And he
sent, and brought him in. Now he was
ruddy (132), and withal of a beautiful (3303) countenance and goodly (2896)A
to look to. And the LORD said, Arise,
anoint (4886) him: for this is he."
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