“But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart." (NIV)
David’s older brother Eliab was a big, broad-shouldered, handsome man. If you had gone to look for a king, you would have said, “Surely there’s a kingly man if I ever saw one.” But God didn’t have His eyes upon Eliab; He had his eyes on David. Sometimes we see people and say, “Oh, they have it all. I wish I could be like that person, look like that person, sing like that person, serve like that person. I wish I had their ability. I wish I were this or that.”
It’s so great to know that God doesn’t see as man sees. Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart. At the judgment seat of Christ, there will be a day of revelation and the things that are highly esteemed among men may look much different then. Often what looks good to man is repulsive and disgusting in the eyes of God.
Aren’t you glad, dear friend, for that day of revelation that’s going to come? When it does, the emphasis is not going to be upon the outward but upon the inward. God is not primarily interested in the outward appearance. God is interested in the heart.
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