David was a man after God's own heart

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "DO NOT CONSIDER HIS APPEARANCE, OR HIS HEIGHT, FOR I HAVE REJECTED HIM. tHE LORD DOES NOT LOOK AT THE THINGS MAN LOOKS AT. MAN LOOKS AT THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE, BUT THE LORD LOOKS AT THE HEART."
(I Samuel 16:7, New International Version, 1997)

David was a man after God’s own heart. When Samuel was sent out to look for the next King for
Israel, he went to the house of Jesse who thought so little of David that Jesse did not even consider presenting him to Samuel as a possible choice. Jesse paraded his oldest, his best looking, and his smartest sons, that is to say, his other sons. Samuel who saw that none of them was the one God was seeking, so Samuel asked if there was anyone else. Then, and only then, did Jesse present David. Immediately upon seeing this young shepherd, Samuel announced, “He is the one.” David was a small teenaged boy, an an unlikely candidate, but God saw more than that.

God chooses what the world discards and does not value. God is the One who saw David’s heart. Our God sees in secret and He rewards in the open. We each have a calling. We may be anointed, but not released for appointment. But we are to act in our calling. So we keep on doing what we are called to do. It is tempting to put ourselves in positions of so-called importance and to rely on our natural strengths. Only God can do this appropriately with His perfect and right timing. He will anoint and He will appoint. If there is any retribution required God is our vindicator when the time is right. (No apology necessary then.)

I feel like an unlikely candidate sometimes. But I know I should battle through these negative thoughts and press into the victory of our Savior Jesus. David made God proud, erven though David made mistakes along the way in life. He always apologized and kept his relationship with God clean. There was much respect between them. I cling to the hope that He will be proud of me one day.