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The Davidic covenant stands alone and is very different in nature from the prevailing Mosaic covenant of that day. In the midst of the era of Israel’s vassal covenant, suddenly David received a grant covenant, and it seemed to take place simply because his heart was right. He loved God with all his being. David seemed to know and experience God in a different way, and that close, intimate relationship David yearned for with God is another powerful picture of the relationship God wants with each one of us.

But David’s love for God didn’t make David a perfect person, and this was not to be a performance-based relationship. Far from it. David wasn’t the best father and had problems with his children; he lusted after a married woman, took her from her husband and slept with her, then murdered her husband. In addition, his daughter was raped by his son and he didn’t intervene. David’s life, while it encompassed great success, was also characterized by a strong pattern of failure. Yet he was an amazing man in God’s eyes. Why?

It’s simple; David trusted God. He was looked over and passed over by everybody, including his own father, but God had his eyes on David the whole time. God was in love with David because, with all his flaws, David loved and trusted God. He was passionately in love with God. His failings never disqualified him from a love relationship with his lovestruck God. Their relationship was not based on an unattainable level of perfection on David’s part, because David was only human. Like us, he couldn’t be perfect, no matter how hard he tried.

Instead, David’s relationship with God was a picture of a new and different way of relating to God. A new covenant was coming. A better covenant. And that covenant would be built on a new law—the law of love.