Person After God's Own Heart
A Psalm of David, A Profession of Uprightness
1 I will sing of lovingkindness and justice, to You, O Lord, I will sing praises.
2
I will give heed to the blameless way.
When will You come to me? I
will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart.
3
I will set no worthless thing before my eye, I hate the 1work of those who fall away—
it
shall not fasten its grip on me.
4
A perverse heart shall depart from me, I
will know no evil.
5
Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy—
No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure.
6
My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with
me—
He who walks in a blameless way is the one who will minister to me.
7 He who practices deceit shall not dwell
within my house;
He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.
8
Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land—
so
as to cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do
iniquity.
David
Was A Man After God’s Own Heart
Was A Man After God’s Own Heart
Do we wonder what this means? Is it attainable?
Because David was a man of war, he
committed adultery and murder—yet God loved him after His
own heart...
The heart of a man is the
well-spring of his soul. What influences
us from the outside is what turns our heart to do evil. Be careful what you allow to
influence you. The devil knows we have human weakness—He will use what we
see and what we hear to influence our choices. God
allows it—to test our faithfulness to Him.
David Sought
After God
David had absolute faith in
God. David loved God’s law. He wrote down many of his prayers in the form of song [psalms] during
troubling times in his life. David repeatedly mentioned how much he loved
God’s perfect Word. We find a beautiful example of this in Psalm 119:47-48:
“For
I delight in your commands because I love them. I lift up my hands to your
commands, which I love, and I meditate on your decrees.”
It is not hard to see
his complete adoration for God’s Word. He mentions that he “meditates”
on God’s statutes. God granted David understanding and wisdom through daily
meditation.
David was
truly thankful
“I wash my hands in
innocence, and go about your altar, O LORD, proclaiming aloud
your praise and
telling of all your wonderful deeds” (Psalm 26:6-7).
David’s life had seasons of great peace and prosperity as well as times of fear and despair. But
through all of the seasons in his life, he never forgot to thank the Lord for
everything that he had. It is truly one of his finest characteristics.
"Enter
his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him;
bless his name!" (Psalm 100:4). As followers of Jesus Christ, we
too should always follow David’s lead of offering praise through thanksgiving to
our Lord on a daily basis.
David’s
prayer of repentance to God:
“Have
mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your
abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin!" (Psalm 51:1-2).
David demonstrated his faith on a daily
basis which pleased the Lord. Throughout his life his faith would be tested on
a grand scale and in the final analysis he passed most of the tests. David also
loved God’s law and he sought to follow it as best he could. He spent many days
meditating on it and trying to apply it to his own life. He knew that God’s law
had the power to change lives if it was followed to the letter.
An important
character trait that David exhibited was that he had the attitude of gratitude—and was very thankful for his life. He had all sorts of
trouble, come his way but David thanked God every day no matter what the circumstances. And David was truly repentant. Let us not forget that he was a man just
like us who sinned on a regular basis. But, despite his sin, he always loved
God and sought to repent of those sins. He is a role model for all of us
who need to repent earnestly. David was indeed a man after God’s own
heart.
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