“Great, the donkeys got loose again. And it’s my job to go out and find them. Couldn’t dad send the servants out to find them? But instead he sent me. I have no idea where they might be; I guess I’ll just start looking…” Ever have one of those tasks given to you? One you can’t understand why YOU are doing this and not someone else. Maybe you feel that you were over qualified, or under qualified. Maybe the task is not what you enjoy, yet you have been given a task of “chasing the donkeys.”
Yet because of that meaningless task given to him by his father, Saul stumbled upon Samuel, whom had been told by God that he would meet the king of Israel the next day. Sometimes the task of “chasing the donkeys” is simply God testing your faithfulness, and placing you in the right place at the right time to do that or a greater task, or simply to prepare you for something greater. Trust him…