I have found David[ the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’[Acts13:22
What does it mean that David was a man after God’s own heart? I have heard it said that Romans went after power, the Greeks after knowledge, this is what they sought, and David went after God’s heart. In his essence David was a sheperd who was chosen to be king because of his relationship He had with God. A relationship which I believe only was enhanced as he developed and entered into what the Lord had for him. He trusted God, most of all He loved His word which would have consisted of the law and some of the prophets, and yet he developed in an intimate whole hearted relationship with God as someone who was under the law and not born again. This amazes me, the love that He had for His word, constant, steadfast. What did it mean to do all of His will. To do all of His word. Psalm 119 is the longest chapter of the Bible and its David’s love letter to God about His word.
Psalm 119:2 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are they who keep His testimonies, and who seek, inquire for and of Him and crave Him with the whole heart. (Amplified Bible)
I live in another world and another time, and yet David’s words inspired by the Spirit of God have helped me so much. He was a very real person, with a very real faith in a very real God. What I see in his relationship with God is someone who was completely wholehearted in His relationship with the Lord. In the new testament we call this being fervent in spirit, which goes with being a doer of the word. Many of us have entered into things in our lives because of the relationship that we have with the Lord. The greatest relationship that we will ever know is our relationship with Him, yet sometimes the very relationship that brought us to where we are today suffers as we enter into the things God has for us. The word of God is our life, apart from Him and His word there is no life. I want to be a doer of the word and not just a hearer or a preacher only.
Revelation 1:4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works.
Jesus is our first love, and the book of Revelation calls it a fall when you lose your first love, in which we need to repent from. From this fall, of losing your first love comes all the others, a myriad of sin, but if I had to say this would be the root of any other foul fruit, that we have lost our first love. James calls doing the word doing the work:
James 1:25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
When we moved to Europe in 2010 I started to get so tired and struggle all the time, it seemed as everything was hard , that life just got really hard, the language, the customs, missing people etc… that it started to effect my relationship with the Lord. Then the Lord started to remind me to look to Him, not worry, cast my cares on Him etc, continually renew my mind with the word of God. Things started to turn around. Faith really is the victory that overcomes the world. Problems with our soul sometime seem so big, whether its personal struggles or helping someone through theirs the only thing that saves our soul is the word of God. Letting the work of being a doer of the word be at the forefront of any endeavor I might have for Him, our life really is His and at the end Heaven and earth will pass away but His words will never pass away. Thankful for David and His relationship with God, He wasn’t perfect but He loved God and a whole nation was blessed because of it.