David, a man after God's Heart: Part One

You have to love David, I know I do. I can relate to David better than anyone else in the Bible. He has been called the greatest sinner and the greatest saint of the Old Testament. I by no means fit the 'greatest saint' description but I do relate to the 'greatest sinner'. I can feel David's times of fear, anger and loneliness. His guilt of his wrong doings. But here is where we should all want to aspire to something David had that made him a person after God's heart: With all David's wrong doings (Adulterer, Murderer and the list goes on...), David had a special 'Heart' for God. He always wanted to make things right with God, He did not want to stray from God. He had a heart for God. What is wonderful is that David shows he has a heart, but God has a heart also, and the secret of the abundant life is receiving His heart into ours (Heart means metaphorically of the inner man.  When used metaphorically depending on the context, heart refers to either the mind, the emotions, the will, to the sinful nature, inclusively to the total inner man, or simply to the person as a whole and is often translated as such.)


I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.  (Acts13:16-22)  David was a man who was willing to do what God wanted! How simple that is and yet how hard it is for us to do!