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Friday... He said this about him and He will about us too.


Friday... He said this about him and He will about us too.

The Apostle Paul was speaking to a group and talking about the past history of the Jews and he said this in Acts 13:22 (NLT). He was talking about the first two Kings of Israel and Paul said, "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. He will do everything I want him to do." Wow, what a thing to say about a man.

Well from that great recommendation, I have spent a lot of time in the book of Psalms of which King David wrote so many. David, of whom God said, "I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart." God believed in him and used him, even though he was imperfect.

Well, I also read this morning one of his Psalms, Psalm 86 and over the years of reading this Psalm, I have highlighted a big portion of it. Look at verse 11 (AMP). David, a man after God's own heart wrote this. He said, "Teach me your way, O Lord, I will walk and live in Your truth; direct my heart to fear Your name [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder]." The NLT says, "Teach me your ways, O Lord, that I may live according to your truth! Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you." That is what God wants from us.

Yes, David blew it on the purity of heart part but he came back to God to the point that God said, that David was "a man after God's own heart." David blew it but he didn't stay there. He repented. He suffered some consequences of his sin but he came back.

He goes on, verses 12-13 says, "With all my heart I will praise you, O Lord my God. I will give glory to your name forever, for your love for me is very great. You have rescued me from the depths of death."

God also used Paul. Now Paul had started by killing people who were believers in Jesus. But Jesus revealed himself to him and Paul changed direction, God changed his name from Saul to Paul and he wrote a big portion of the New Testament. He too was rescued from the depths of death. He repented of his evil ways, he asked for God's forgiveness and God forgave him and used him. And He wants to do the same with us. It just takes a heart turing from it's wicked ways to a heart that is after God's own heart. 

As David says, "With all my heart I will praise you, O Lord my God. I will give glory to your name forever, for your love for me is very great. You have rescued me from the depths of death."  And He wants to do the same with you. Just confess your sins and change direction from going away from God to following God and walking and living in His truth and asking Him to direct your heart to fear His name "with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder." and by giving glory to His name forever, for His love for me is very great. 

God said, "I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He will do everything I want him to do." And He wants to say the same thing about us too and He will if we do everything He wants us to do. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

 


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