God looks on the heart

The sovereignty of God in achieving His purposes is something wonderful but also very profound. Here in this passage about the choosing of David to be king we still see that God is the one who ‘wrote the script’. We are short-sighted because our sin corrupts how we see everything. When it comes to choosing a king, David was an unlikely choice but we are told that God does not look at the outward appearance but the heart …. He is a man after God’s own heart.

God worked powerfully in David and this enabled him to do great things such as the victory over Goliath. David knew that God was with Him …. he didn’t rely on his own strength.  David was a pointer to THE great King who was to come after him and fulfil God’s ‘master plan’. Jesus is called ‘Emmanuel’ which means “God with us’. He has demonstrated His perfect Kinship by laying down His life, on the cross, so that we can live in and through Him.