A Man After God's Own Heart

[kittylover0991]

A Man After God

[Redefine_Me]

Great post! Thanks.

[patricia1]

Great post! Thanks.

perfect. What is so tremendous to me is that after hearing of King Sauls death and while others celebrated David called for mourning...That is not only humbleness, that is Love...

[Guest]

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A Man After God

[DarkNebulaWelder]

Oh, thank you so much for posting this.

You know, I was really moved in reading this, because lately, I have had an innate desire to "bless God," as David declared in so many of his Psalms, and have been wondering how.

I have also wondered what it means to be a person "after God's own heart," and you have addressed the issue most beautifully.

I long to be able to bless God...to move Him somehow, and to make Him feel glad.

I know that David did so, and now I know just how.

Thanks you for your post.....and I am glad to know that my tears are not in vain, as weren't David's.

[freedfromsin]

While david is called a man after God's own heart david is not called a righteous man, or holy or pefect in God's sight. Unlike Daniel who lived a life of godliness David's life is one of sin and failure with blaring failure. He was one of the worst fathers in the bible. To be honest David is not an example to follow after excet to be honest after our sin. Repent and turn from it. Daniel is a great example of a man who loves the Lord and how we are to live.

[DarkNebulaWelder]

While david is called a man after God's own heart david is not called a righteous man, or holy or pefect in God's sight. Unlike Daniel who lived a life of godliness David's life is one of sin and failure with blaring failure. He was one of the worst fathers in the bible. To be honest David is not an example to follow after excet to be honest after our sin. Repent and turn from it. Daniel is a great example of a man who loves the Lord and how we are to live.

So, then, how does a person "bless" the Lord?

Did David actually bless the Lord, or is this just something that he longed to do?

In saying that David was a man "after God's own heart," is this merely stating the attitude of David, or did he actually manage to touch God's heart?

I do realize that David was imperfect, but is this to say that God is willing to look past our imperfections IF we come to Him with the right attitude?

As far as Daniel is concerned....remember that Joseph was also righteous, as were Job and Noah, and none of them were labeled "after God's own heart."

In this, I am to assume that it has more to do with attitude than with righteous behaviour.

[kittylover0991]

While david is called a man after God's own heart david is not called a righteous man, or holy or pefect in God's sight. Unlike Daniel who lived a life of godliness David's life is one of sin and failure with blaring failure. He was one of the worst fathers in the bible. To be honest David is not an example to follow after excet to be honest after our sin. Repent and turn from it. Daniel is a great example of a man who loves the Lord and how we are to live.

You're absolutely right! David was a sinful man... he not only was avoiding his own proper duty by not being at war, he looked on a woman who was bathing, he lusted after he, committed adultery with her, and then had her husband killed to try and hide all the evidence!!! You're right, how sinful!!! He was a horrible father in the end, but it's because of his sin with Bathsheba that he had so many problems with his children. I honestly think he was "holy" by the definition of "set apart", but at the same time, we do have to remember that he was human, and not meant to be worshipped. However, he was a man after God's own heart, and even Abraham, a man who called his wife his sister more than just one time, the one who slept with Hagar becuase he didn't trust God's timing with a seed through Sara, and thus now we have a whole nation against God from that... but he was called God's friend... David was a called "A man after God's own heart". It's interests me that David wasn't put in the great "Hall of Fame" for "Heroes of the Faith", but what a title to have!! How David loved God and he recognized His sin and that he was less than God.

No, David is not ont to follow in the area of being honest about sin, but there are many chapters where he is crying out to God becuase of His sin! He's cried to God about his sin asking if God could possibly turn away His wrath, showing the despair in His heart, but then He actually turns to God who is able to deliver him! David shows that he is human and I like how someone said in another thread that it shows how David poured himself out to God, how *we* can open our hearts and pour it out to God like he did. It's alright to tell God that you are afraid, that you are trodden down with sin, it's alright to praise Him and how he desires for us to praise Him! But God also wants us to come to him with the circumstances and the sins that in our life becuase he already knows them, and as the Everlasting Father and the Great Comforter, He longs to be there for us as a father is to a child... we are his children!

My question is, what else made David a man after God's own heart? Was it becuase of his sin, recognition of it, and then trust in God through it, through blessings, through the good times and bad, unlike Jonah, that made him a "man after God's own heart"?

[Guest]

My question is, what else made David a man after God's own heart?

His Heart

The Heart Of God

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Hosea 6:6

The Heart Of David

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

Psalms 27:4

God Knows The Heart

But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

1 Samuel 16:7

And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.

Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

1 Samuel 16:12-13

Love

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

Deuteronomy 6:5

God's Love

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16

The Lord's Love

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 12:2

Behold Bless Ye The LORD All Ye Servants Of The LORD

Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.

Psalms 134

You Are So Loved Beloved Of The LORD

The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:

The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.

Numbers 6:24-27

Love, Your Brother Joe