Acts 13:22 - New International Version (NIV)
'After removing Saul, he made David their king.God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart;he will do everything I want him to do.’
God seems well pleased with David!
But we know David sinned - and quite gravely at that. And indeed we know the punishment David received as a consequence of his sin. Still, here, God testifies on David's behalf saying that David is a man after His own heart. He qualifies this claim with the words - 'He will do everything I want Him to do.' God does not commend David for his sinlessness or holiness but God emphasizes His confidence that David would do everything He wanted him to do.
Here more than the heart of David, it is the heart of God that is being revealed.The very heart of our awesome God responds to the love and passion within the heart of a mere man - sinner or no sinner. The heart of God 'sees' the heart of man and feels his spirit -- the spirit that hungers and thirsts after God. The heart which God finds suppliant. The heart that yearns to do the will of God by being a mere extension of that will. A heart that is humble enough to forego its own personal desires and agendas in order to become a mellifluous instrument of Gods love and will.
To do the will of God requires a deep love and passion for God. It requires the deepest yearning to be after God's heart.
To do the will of God requires a deep love and passion for God. It requires the deepest yearning to be after God's heart.
Sinlessness, purity, holiness - will all follow. The heart of God measures the love and selflessness within our hearts, more than anything else!
