Tending Sheep
Are you a person after God's Own Heart?
God sees us, and He knows our heart. When we live in obedience to His Will and walk in His Way, He will bless us in His Timing. Saul was a man chosen as the first King of Israel because of his external appearance. He tried to follow God's Will, but he often chose to do things his way and in his timing. Partial obedience is still disobedience. God looks for hearts that are seeking after His Heart.
1 Samuel 13:13-14 - “You have done a foolish thing,” Samuel said. “You have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time. But now your kingdom will not endure; the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him ruler of his people, because you have not kept the Lord’s command.”
David was a man after God's own heart. God chose him to be the King of Israel after Saul because God was looking at his heart. He was the youngest of eight sons of Jesse, and he grew in his relationship with God while he was a young man out in the fields tending sheep. He fought off lions and bears that came to attack the sheep. Those encounters prepared him to defeat a giant named Goliath because He trusted in God's strength and not his own.
David wasn't perfect. He still had times in his life when he sinned. Yet, he always repented when he recognized his sin. Every new day given to us is an opportunity to make a request of God to help us be a person after His heart.
Psalm 139:23-24 - Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
God sees us, and He knows our heart. When we live in obedience to His Will and walk in His Way, He will bless us in His Timing. Saul was a man chosen as the first King of Israel because of his external appearance. He tried to follow God's Will, but he often chose to do things his way and in his timing. Partial obedience is still disobedience. God looks for hearts that are seeking after His Heart.
1 Samuel 13:13-14 - “You have done a foolish thing,” Samuel said. “You have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time. But now your kingdom will not endure; the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him ruler of his people, because you have not kept the Lord’s command.”
David was a man after God's own heart. God chose him to be the King of Israel after Saul because God was looking at his heart. He was the youngest of eight sons of Jesse, and he grew in his relationship with God while he was a young man out in the fields tending sheep. He fought off lions and bears that came to attack the sheep. Those encounters prepared him to defeat a giant named Goliath because He trusted in God's strength and not his own.
David wasn't perfect. He still had times in his life when he sinned. Yet, he always repented when he recognized his sin. Every new day given to us is an opportunity to make a request of God to help us be a person after His heart.
Psalm 139:23-24 - Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
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