Waits and Measures
Thursday, February 27, 2014 Posted by Debbie Legg
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I
went to bed the other night in a jumble. My mind and body were ready for some
shut-eye, but my heart was spinning a hundred different directions. I asked God for some
insight into it all and, half-asleep, I felt in my spirit, "David waited
patiently."
Suddenly
I knew the reason David was a man after God's own heart.
David
was a terrible father, probably a lousy husband, a great warrior, an amazing
musician and psalm-writer, but none of those things made him—or didn’t make
him--a man after God's heart. It was the fact that David waited patiently for
God's timing.
David’s
wait for God to remove King Saul began when David was a mere boy, possibly around the age of 12, when Samuel
anointed him King. He was 30 when he became
King of the Tribe of Judah, and it was another 7 ½ years before he was crowned King
of all Israel. That’s a 20-30 year span. In any book that’s a long time to wait
for the fulfillment of a promise, and yet David was whole-heartedly committed
to God’s plan in God’s time. Nothing was going to make him kill Saul to get the
throne. It was in God’s hands.
If
we want to be people after God’s own heart it won’t be because we read the Bible
so many times, or give money to the poor, or are the best wife/husband/parent/whatever.
It will be because we wait for God in patience, in trust, in faith, in hope,
and in love.
Psalm
40 -- Of David
I waited patiently for the Lord;
he turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.
He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear the Lord
and put their trust in him. (v1-4)
he turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.
He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear the Lord
and put their trust in him. (v1-4)
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