Davids Heart

[backtothefuture]

In Acts 13:22 it says: God gave testimony. I have found David the son of Jesse, A man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill all my will.

I have wondered many times over the years what it meant to have this kind of heart. What was it that God loved about David so much? His humbleness, his ability to repent, his strength to go forward with God's will?
As I have gone though my grief period, I have written many poems and laments. I have just always loved the Psalms and the stuff David wrote. Its so real to me.
I use to think I was a failure and could never have the kind of heart that David had. But now I don't think that way. To me having a Heart after Gods means realizing God is in everything even in the pain and suffering. I pray, but mostly I just talk talk talk to God all the time. Walking, in the car, in the bath. Do you think that would qualify me as a person with a heart that God would be happy with? Do we still need to seek God's will in our lives? Or are we God's will?:biggrinbounce:
Thanks,
Nancy

[Paige]

Nancy,

From what I know of you, I would say you are a woman after God's heart! :biggrinbounce:

Paige

[lynn]

Do we still need to seek God's will in our lives? Or are we God's will?:biggrinbounce:
"For by one offering He has perfected forever them that are santified" (Heb. 10:14). They, including us also, I think, were santified in 70 AD. "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city . . .to bring in everlasting righteousness" (Dan. 9:24). No matter what you do, say, think, or feel, Nancy, you can never be more perfect and righteous than you are now, IMO. I personally don't worry about seeking God. Neither do I think about repenting, pleasing God, loving Him, or refraining from failing Him. We are all righteous in God's sight, even if we may not be people after God's own heart. Isn't that cool? :9_cool:

[Amie]

I wonder what "after God's own heart" means.

If my child were "after" my own heart they could have a heart "after" or "like/similar" to my heart. They might be in pursuit of (after) my heart. And, it could be that in saying that I was expressing that I was feeling captured by them.

I don't have an answer for that just now.

I do think that life is the will of God.

Amie