A Life with God: David

I'm excited that Jordan Seng is starting a series on the life of David...cool stuff to ponder. I hope we will also have some lively discussion and insights to share along the way here on the Faith Brothers and Sisters blog.

I've pulled-out my "Strengthen Yourself in the Lord" book, and my not-finished study**, "A Heart Like His".

**Shh, please don't tell anyone that I've been doing a Beth Moore, woman's in-depth study, as this may ruin any chance I have of ever getting married....LOL.

Jordan posed some interesting questions, those "bothersome questions" that I'd like to look at right now:

Why is David's heart so great?

What does a great heart get you?

What does it mean to us?


So, what does it mean to a "man after God's own heart?" I mean, did God know that this is who David was already, or who David was becoming, or who David would one day become? Since God is timeless, from perspective did God see this?

Fascinating to look at because you and I can only look from the outside, into someone's past actions and/or their present actions and then "determine" their motives and heart from that....and how many times have we gotten that right?

GOD, on the other hand, does see the heart matters of our inner-lives, as well as knows what our future holds....

So, God must really dig our efforts and attempts at being in true relationship with Him, living out of that aspect will come a heart of worship, service, relationship, and a heart to the things that matter to God.

What does a great heart get you? Pruning to even have a greater heart is what seems to be the gig.... Jesus is recorded in the book of John to describe that He is the vine and we are the branches and that God prunes those true branches to produce even more fruit.

So that would seem to tell me, the virtues I have will be even more refined, as through the refining of gold and silver through fire will make them even more pure....that is hot, and that is difficult.

Looking, as Jordan suggests in his notes, at the anointing and selection of Saul and David as a compare and contrast study, we see interesting things. I also love what Bill Johnson has to say... Saul was immediately selected and positioned as King, whereas, David had to go through a long process of becoming King.

I think it was that period of time, when no one saw him as a King that David was shaped to be the great King of Israel. Those times of hardship and persecution were building blocks, honing stones, and chisels of character-building quality.

Well, we got some stuff to start chewing on, and I'll go back over my, A Heart Like His, study and see what may be gleaned from all this....

May the LORD our God ROCK YOUR WORLD!