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Hello! Good Morning! Thank you for studying Inspiration Daily today! God bless you!
TITLE: “A Man after God’s heart”
INSPIRATION: Saul did everything for righteousness sake; David did all He did because he truly loved God!
Acts 13:22 “But God removed Saul and replaced him with David, a man about whom God said, 'I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. Who will do all my will”
One time, I pondered on why Saul was so quickly replaced by God. David’s sin appeared greater to me than Saul’s sin. Saul disobeyed and David also disobeyed God. David ate the Holy Food placed before the Lord (1 Samuel 21:6) that Good sternly warned against anyone eating; yet, nothing happened to him. But remember what happened to Uzziah who touched the Ark of God when he was strongly instructed not to. 2 Samuel 2:6-7 records“…Uzzah reached out toward the ark of God… for the oxen nearly upset it. And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down there for his irreverence; and he died there by the ark of God”. David didn’t have the same issue when he ate the Holy Food. Also, David lusted after a married woman, committed adultery with her, tried manipulation to cover his sin (which didn’t work anyway), then used the power of the throne as king of Israel to kill her husband and finally married her. Yet, God still loved David dearly and called him a man’s after His heart. Whew!!!
From studying the life of Saul and David, the wisdom of God soon showed me that Saul cared more for the law of God than the God of the law, he loved the position of a king than the people he was asked to lead, he didn’t listen to God’s instructions on how to lead the people, he just did things his own way. He cared more about activities, services, sacrifices, going to war, winning battles etc; not for God but to fulfill all righteousness and for his pride. That’s why he was jealous of David when the Israelites hailed David more than they hailed him. His heart was never truly after God, it was so far away from God’s will. But David was a man that truly deeply loved God, he understood the ways of God, he knew God, he loved God passionately. David looked around, saw where the ark of God was placed, and started thinking about why he would be living in a beautiful house but the ark of the Lord was in a shabby place; he at that moment decided to build a beautiful house for my God. David was thoughtful; he was willing to do everything God asked him to do. His psalms show how much he cared for God, God’s emotions, the will of God and God’s people, how much he cared about honoring God
God cares more about how much we long for Him; He cares about how much we desire to honor Him and do his will; He cares more for intimacy than activities and conferences and conventions. He cares for a relationship with you. But, are you a man after God’s heart?
#Thoughtoftheday
Remember, God knows the heart of every man, Psalm 44:21 asks “would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart”.
Have a lovely day!