Acts 13:22 – “After removing Saul, God made David their King. God testified concerning David: “I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do”. David had to fight with moral infirmities and passion. He was often conquered and crushed but he got up with resolve in his heart and victory in his life.
The Integrity of His Heart
1 Kings 9:4 – ” As for you, if you walk before me in integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws”. God found integrity in David’s heart. Psalm 139:23,24 – ” Search me,O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts; see if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting”. David had an openness of heart in that he calls upon God to search and to make a minute survey of it. He submitted himself unconditionally to any form of examination.
Brokenness of Heart
Psalm 51:17 – ” The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise”. Self righteousness will never descend to immorality but reflects a heart of stone which is incapable of penitence. Only with brokenness and contrition can there be cleansing and forgiveness of sins.
Truthfulness of Heart
Psalm 15:1,2 – ” Lord, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill”?. Verse 2 – “He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, Who speaks the truth from his heart”. God cannot tolerate a lying heart in his presence. John 4:24 – “God is Spirit and his worshipers must worship in Spirit and in truth.”
The Maturity of Heart
David’s maturity of heart is seen in his walk, worship and witness. Psalm 101:2 – says, David was careful to lead a blameless life in his home and public life. His worship from Psalm 150 speaks of an intimacy with God, trust in God, putting his hope in God. Many worship their work;work at their play and play at their worship. David witnessed about God – Psalm 40:10 – to the people. He spoke of his experience of God’s deliverance and direction in his life and his devotion to God. Matt 12:34 – “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks”. David’s heart was filled with God and the things of God and so he expressed it in his praises to God in the book of Psalms.
Fidelity of Heart
Fidelity means faithfulness or devotion to duty. Allegiance means loyalty. The faithfulness or devotion to duty of David’s heart expressed his loyalty and obedience to God – Psalm 86:11. A divided heart can never be faithful. 1 Kings 15:5 -” David pursued the path of righteousness through his obedience to God.”