If God were to sum up your life or my life with just a few words, what words would He use?
When God summed up King David's life, He used words that were not said of anyone else in Scripture. God said that David was a "man after God's own heart." What does it look like to have God’s heart? For one thing, David is not like King Saul, and is not a coward. He is daring, volatile, dangerous, and epic; he feels deeply because he has God’s heart. Beyond just feeling things deeply, David felt conviction about God's Word--he LOVED the Scriptures.
What about David’s actions? This is the major conflict we run into when we talk about David being a ‘man after God’s own heart’- David did many unrighteous things. One commentator puts it this way: “The deepest of all the mysteries that confront us in the Hebrew Bible is the mystery of how a man as flawed as David can be a man after God’s own heart.” Theodore Beza, John Calvin's successor, could not think of any other examples of so many horrible crimes coming out of one act (David's adultery with Bathsheba). How is it that God called David a man after his own heart when David had such glaring sin in his life?
How will God sum up your life? How will he sum up mine?
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