Be The Man God Is Looking ForMuestra

DAY TWO – True Repentance

The obvious questions I’m sure many of you are asking are “How could this be? How can a man love God and sin like that, and how can God bless a man with that kind of sin?” I am certainly not excusing David’s actions. Neither is God. As we will see in a later chapter, David also knew true sorrow and repentance for his sin and failures.

Author Jim George wrote in his book A Man After God’s Own Heart:

“How could God possibly commend a man with this kind of background? Yes, David was a man with feet of clay, a man who at times committed sins that most of us could not imagine, let alone commit. Yet over the long haul, David sought to be righteous and his heart’s desire was to do God’s will. This is the kind of man God was looking for…

God doesn’t expect perfection, as we can clearly see from David. With all that David had done wrong in his life, God could still look at David’s heart and say he was a man after His own heart—a man who did all God’s will.”

David knew that righteousness, like Abraham’s, could come only through faith in God’s mercy. He understood and looked forward to the coming Messiah.

David knew God when he was disciplined by Him, and then he found cleansing and forgiveness. It’s possible to know God, love Him deeply, and still fail Him miserably. That was David. That is us. Yet he was a man after God’s own heart. God found him, but David chased after God to do His will.

God is looking for men who thirst and pant for Him, men who will step forward in those God moments, men who will rise up and do His will.