1 Samuel 15:16-17, Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop!  I’m going to tell you what the Lord said to me last night.”  He said, “Speak.”  Samuel then said, “You may be small in your own sight, but you are head of the tribes of Israel ~ the Lord anointed you king over Israel!”

Samuel was talking with Saul after Saul had disobeyed God and the people had kept the spoils from the battles with the Amalekites for “sacrifice” to God after God had told them not to and they also kept King Agag and clearly some of his relatives alive.  We see a descendant of his in the book of Esther ~ Haman, the enemy of the Jews who tried to have all of the Jews exterminated  Saul’s excuse was that he was afraid of the people because they wanted to take the spoil, so he let them even though Saul had been told not to.  

Too often we think that our low self-esteem doesn’t affect anyone but ourselves but the reality is that when we miss seeing ourselves the way God does we can make poor choices that affect everyone!  Saul was anointed to lead the people but he had kept the old mindset of being “Only a man from Benjamin, the smallest tribe in Israel; and my family is the least important of all the families in the tribe of Benjamin.”  (1 Samuel 9:21). Even though he was told who God said he was he was clinging to who he had always told himself or others had told him he was and he was missing out on being who God created him to be.  One of the things that really stuck out to me also was the fact that King Saul was missing out on a relationship with God.  He always called God, “your God” when he was talking to Samuel.  How sad that satan won that battle with that family because they believed the lie that they were “less than” the other families.  

Don’t allow what others say or have said, or maybe what your family has always felt or said keep you from who God says He created you to be!  You are not the only one who will be affected and you could miss out on fulfilling all that God has created you to be.  He has a plan for your life and He wants to use your story.  Don’t buy satan’s lies instead dig into the Word of God and apply His Words to you and your own life!  God loves you and He wants to guide you every step of the way.  Choose to believe that He created you with a purpose and He has put great things within you to accomplish it!  Start today, don’t wallow in anything but God’s Word so you can become all He created you to be.