Do you ever feel like you’re just running around in circles? Like you’re chasing after something that is valued by someone else? That your life is spent more in helping others maintain their advancement rather than advancing your own? If so, then you’re not alone. Most of us could answer yes to one of those questions right now and all of us at one time or another could have said yes to them all.

Seems like we all start this way. But did you know this is the method God uses to get you to the place of your real identity. A place that, when you finally arrive, you realize you weren’t running in circles. A place that helps you understand that, while you were chasing some else’s valued possessions, you were actually heading towards your own.

God will watch how you act in pursuit of someone else’s dream before He releases you into your own. As a matter of fact, chasing our dreams should freak us out; we should be comfortable with helping someone else pursue theirs. Of course this is not the way of the world, but it is the way of the kingdom. Check this scripture out-Luke 16:10-12 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? Can you see how God will often give you a little responsibility in order to qualify you for more? God will test you with someone else’s dream as a precursor for your own.

In I Samuel 9 we are introduced to a young man by the name of Saul. Saul would become the first king of Israel. When we first meet Saul, we learn that he is the son of a wealthy man. We learn that though he’s very tall and one of the most handsome guys in all of Israel, he has no clue to the call of God on his life. I’m sure by his economic status, he had a lot of friends, by his physical stature, the most eligible bachelor and yet still unable to see the call to be a king. As a matter of fact, when the revelation of becoming king comes to him, he denies that he’s qualified.

Saul’s father loses some donkeys. Now let me say losing a few donkeys today would not be too much of a setback for most. In the days of Saul however, the donkey was a valuable animal. Saul’s father sends him out to find the donkeys. After much searching and no sign of the donkeys, Saul decides to head back home. He tells the guy with him that he was certain his dad would by now long forgotten the donkeys and would be worried about their safety. The guy traveling with him tells him about the prophet Samuel, who just so happens to be in the city they are close to. He tells Saul that Samuel could tell them where the donkeys were. Saul reluctantly decides to go ask the man of God. I mean, does not a great man of God have better things to do then answer questions about lost donkeys. Nonetheless that day Saul, who was chasing the lost donkeys of his father, has encounter with God. When Samuel sees him, he sees a king. No one else could see it, but Samuel saw it. When Samuel sees it, he releases it. That day, Saul would be changed into another man.

What a difference a day can make. One day you’re chasing donkeys and the next you become king. There are so many great things hidden within us all. As we chase our donkeys, we discover them. Today, don’t despise your assignment; you may be about to encounter your Samuel and when you do well, you become another person as well.

Keep chasing your donkeys; you’re about to turn into a King-

-Anthony Daley