HANDSOME MAN

I love reading and wondering about King David. There were so many different sides to him. He watched sheep, but was a king. He wrote poetry and played the harp, yet he went around killing giants. He sang praises to God and fell to temptation when he looked at Bathsheba. He had to have been a passionate sort of man to have all his wives...Michael....Abigail...Bathsheba... He was passionate when he cried for days over losing his family in Zig. Then the Bible says he got up washed his face and encouraged himself in the Lord. Thats amazing!

David was a leader for his generation. He knew what to keep and what to change. He knew what was important.

When David went to battle the giant, King Saul tried to give him armour. David was not about to take it to battle. Armour was for the old generation. He had a new fangled weapon called a slingshot. Leave the armour for the old guys. Can you imagine the comments among the ranks of the older soldiers. David is going to fight with what? Oh Dear Lord what has this generation come to? God just won't be pleased. We have fought with armour for 50 years! Why should we change it now? (Oops!....does that sound familiar?)

Then David knew what to keep! Remember when the Philistines stole the ark and David went to get it back? The Philistines had built a new cart for the ark. They had a new way to carry the ark. David tried to carry it the new way and one of his men ended up dying. Then David remembered. God had special instructions on the way the ark was to be carried. David studied the instructions. He made sure everything was as specified. The ark made it back home safely and David (showing his passoniate side again) danced before the Lord. He must have been totally estatic!

God has given us his word! His word is truth! God help me to hide your truth and your words within my heart....just like David wrote..."Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee."