‘I have found David[ the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will
do all My will.’[Acts13:22
What does it
mean that David was a man after God’s own heart? I have heard it said that Romans went after
power, the Greeks after knowledge, this is what they sought, and David went
after God’s heart. In his essence David
was a sheperd who was chosen to be king because of his relationship He had with
God. A relationship which I believe only
was enhanced as he developed and entered into what the Lord had for him. He trusted God, most of all He loved His word
which would have consisted of the law and some of the prophets, and yet he
developed in an intimate whole hearted relationship with God as someone who was
under the law and not born again. This
amazes me, the love that He had for His word, constant, steadfast. What did it mean to do all of His will. To do all of His word. Psalm 119 is the
longest chapter of the Bible and its David’s love letter to God about His word.
Psalm 119:2 Blessed
(happy, fortunate, to be envied) are they who keep His testimonies, and who
seek, inquire for and of Him and crave Him with the whole heart. (Amplified
Bible)
I
live in another world and another time, and yet David’s words inspired by the
Spirit of God have helped me so much. He
was a very real person, with a very real faith in a very real God. What I see in his relationship with God is
someone who was completely wholehearted in His relationship with the Lord. In the new testament we call this being
fervent in spirit, which goes with being a doer of the word. Many of us have
entered into things in our lives because of the relationship that we have with
the Lord. The greatest relationship that
we will ever know is our relationship with Him, yet sometimes the very
relationship that brought us to where we are today suffers as we enter into the
things God has for us. The word of God
is our life, apart from Him and His word there is no life. I want to be a doer of the word and not just
a hearer or a preacher only.
Revelation 1:4 Nevertheless I have this
against you, that you have left your first love. 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent
and do the first works.
Jesus is our first love, and the book of Revelation calls it a
fall when you lose your first love, in which we need to repent from. From this fall, of losing your first love
comes all the others, a myriad of sin, but if I had to say this would be the
root of any other foul fruit, that we have lost our first love. James calls doing the word doing
the work:
James 1:25 But he who looks into
the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer
but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
When we moved to Europe in 2010 I started to get so tired and
struggle all the time, it seemed as everything was hard , that life just got
really hard, the language, the customs, missing people etc... that it started
to effect my relationship with the Lord. Then the Lord started to remind me to
look to Him, not worry, cast my cares on Him etc, continually renew my mind
with the word of God. Things started to
turn around. Faith really is the victory
that overcomes the world. Problems with
our soul sometime seem so big, whether its personal struggles or helping
someone through theirs the only thing that saves our soul is the word of God. Letting the work of being a doer of the word
be at the forefront of any endeavor I might have for Him, our life really is
His and at the end Heaven and earth will pass away but His words will never
pass away. Thankful for David and His
relationship with God, He wasn’t perfect but He loved God and a whole nation
was blessed because of it.
Alexandra Fleege
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