David was privileged to have...
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David was privileged to have Nathan around to inform him when his goals and ideas were not what God had in mind. So when David wants to build a temple to house the worship of God, God has other ideas. It is more important that David build another kind of house: a dynasty. The rest of us are not so lucky. In the well-known film, It's A Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart plays a man who has always had big dreams for himself that would eventually get him out of his hometown, Bedford Falls. Somehow his dreams are always way-laid or put on the back burner because of other, more pressing needs, and he spends his life carrying on the family-run building and loan that his father started. Finally, in despair over the prospect of losing the building and loan altogether, and frustrated that he has never been able to meet any of his own goals, he concludes that his life has been meaningless, and he would be better off dead. At the hands of a would-be angel, still seeking his wings, he learns what his life has really been about and what his efforts have meant to the community of Bedford Falls and its people. If he hadn't been there, it would be a far different community -- in fact, it would not be a community at all. Just as God had different ideas about what David ought to be working on, it is also true for us -- God has other ideas about what we ought to be working on as well, and if our lives seem not to be going as we would like, maybe we need to look more deeply at the meaning of our lives, as Jimmy Stewart had to. -- Johnson-
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