The Man After God's Own Heart

~first of all~
sorry for late posting, I was having some problems with IE yesterday nite, and had only downloaded Mozilla a while ago.


MY SUPER HERO
Thinking about Super Hero, Jesus Christ is the first One who come into my mind. HE is my ReaL HERO! =)
However, this time I would like to talk about the man who comes second in winning my true admiration after Jesus Christ Himself.
He is the man whom GOD called 'a man after MY own heart'.

'I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after My own heart; He will carry out My every wish.' ~Acts 13:22~

... DAVID, GREAT KING OF ISRAEL ...

I really admire how David beautifully poured out his heart content in his Psalms, praising 'n worshiping God, adoring Him, thanking Him and trusting all of himself wholly under the shelter of God's wings.

I also admire how David was NOT AT ALL influenced by great success, wealth and power.
There's a chapter in the Bible which depicting how David, the Great King of Israel is still the SAME old David, the shepherd of 2~3 sheeps in front of Our Living God. He humbled himself before The Lord and all his people, thought nothing of himself to please The Lord's heart.

~ 2 Samuel 6 ~
16 As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
20 When David returned to bless his own family, Saul's daughter Michal came out to meet him and said, "How the king of Israel has honored himself today, exposing himself to the view of the slave girls of his followers, as a commoner might do!"
21 But David replied to Michal: "I was dancing before the LORD. As the LORD lives, who preferred me to your father and his whole family when he appointed me commander of the LORD'S people, Israel, not only will I make merry before the LORD,
22 but I will demean myself even more. I will be lowly in your esteem, but in the esteem of the slave girls you spoke of I will be honored."

Truly, I regard him as the man with an integrity. Despite the fact that he is the King of Israel, he portrayed himself as nobody but God's most humble servant in front of all the Israelites and with that he gave all the glory, praise and honor only to The Living God.

There's another scene from the Bible that made me particularly impressed.

~ 2 SAMUEL 23 ~
14 At that time David was in the refuge, and there was a garrison of Philistines in Bethlehem.
15 Now David had a strong craving and said, "Oh, that someone would give me a drink of water
from the cistern that is by the gate of Bethlehem!"
16 So the Three warriors broke through the Philistine camp and drew water from the cistern
that is by the gate of Bethlehem. But when they brought it to David he refused to drink it,
and instead poured it out to the LORD,
17 saying: "The LORD forbid that I do this! Can I drink the blood of these men who went
at the risk of their lives?" So he refused to drink it.

If I imagine, who would ever gambled with their lives only to take water from enemies' campsite merely to satisfy someone's craving during refuge? I guessed it would be kind of foolish, or perhaps ... idiotic! Yet, the Three warriors of David actually DID it for him. I could not imagine how they were tremendously loyal to David and sincerely love him as their King, even when he was powerless and almost dying in the refuge. And to further add into my amusement, David presented the thing he craved most at that time to The LORD! How I wished I could learn from him, to give up things that I want most for HIM.


There are still so many other stories about David which sometimes left me ponder in awe, and ought to admit that it is no wonder that GOD called him 'the man after MY own heart'.


One of the things I desire most in my life is to hear God calling me, 'the one after MY own heart'. How beautiful that would sound! =)

~One of my fave Psalm~

PSALM 139 . . .

1 For the leader. A psalm of David. O LORD, you have probed me, you know me:

2 you know when I sit and stand; you understand my thoughts from afar.

3 My travels and my rest you mark; with all my ways you are familiar.

4 Even before a word is on my tongue, LORD, you know it all.

5 Behind and before you encircle me and rest your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is beyond me, far too lofty for me to reach.

7 Where can I hide from your spirit? From your presence, where can I flee?

8 If I ascend to the heavens, you are there; if I lie down in Sheol, you are there too.

9 If I fly with the wings of dawn and alight beyond the sea,

10 Even there your hand will guide me, your right hand hold me fast.

11 If I say, "Surely darkness shall hide me, and night shall be my light" --

12 Darkness is not dark for you, and night shines as the day. Darkness and light are but one.

13 You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you, so wonderfully you made me;

wonderful are your works! My very self you knew;

15 my bones were not hidden from you, When I was being made in secret,

fashioned as in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes foresaw my actions; in your book all are written down;

my days were shaped, before one came to be.

17 How precious to me are your designs, O God; how vast the sum of them!

18 Were I to count, they would outnumber the sands; to finish, I would need eternity.

19 If only you would destroy the wicked, O God, and the bloodthirsty would depart from me!

20 Deceitfully they invoke your name; your foes swear faithless oaths.

21 Do I not hate, LORD, those who hate you? Those who rise against you, do I not loathe?

22 With fierce hatred I hate them, enemies I count as my own.

23 Probe me, God, know my heart; try me, know my concerns.

24 See if my way is crooked, then lead me in the ancient paths.

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