For September 10, 2026
Don’t Wanna Be Eli by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
HAVING A DESTINY yet never finding it is an all-too-common lot, one that affects the vast majority of human-kind. Finding our destiny and making it our own is a desire of most people. Realizing our destiny to a significant degree is dependent not only upon gifting, but also intentionality—a keen focus that day-by-day holds on to its gains, and keeps improving upon them with a known objective in mind. Losing our destiny through some happenstance of fate, to which we are all subject, is sorrowful. Having our God-given destiny taken away from us due to sin or laxity is tragic, and affects more than just our individual well-being. Such was the case of Eli, the High Priest at Shiloh, the next-to-last judge of Israel.