1 Samuel 16

Often times we believe that God only calls good and qualified people to serve Him.  As we look at the early part of David’s life we come to discover that David did not have much to offer God.  There is a big difference between what God is looking for in a person compared to what we look for in a person.  The calling of David reminds us that God continues to call unlikely people for extraordinary purposes

1 Samuel 20

Best Friends Forever – that would be an appropriate description of David and Jonathan’s friendship.  God has wired us to be in relationship with one another.  We are all looking for some kind of friendship.  Most of us have friends but the friendship modelled by David and Jonathan is very profound and one we can hold up as a model example of BFFs.  Even Ross, Chandler, Joey, Rachel, Phoebe and Monica could learn from these two. 

1 Samuel 30

Blessing, tragedy and the consequences for David’s lies and compromises.  David stumbles and makes a mess of things.  As a result David loses his family, his city and his friends.  But David did not wallow in self-pity, he did not draw back from God.  In fact, he pursued God more intently and trusted in God’s mercy and love to see him through.  When we face difficulties in life we can use David’s example here to remind us to have hope in hard times. 

2 Samuel 12

David’s life was great.  He was literally “king of the hill”.  Then one incident, one temptation and David’s life began to unravel and he suffered the consequences of his choice.  But we see in the midst of David’s sin a God who is holy and just and sets us free from the power of sin and shame.  Sin continues its destructive pattern of separating us from God but we also see the lengths God will go to restore that relationship and remove our sin. 

Psalm 65

One of the greatest descriptions given to David was that he was a “man after God’s own heart”.  By all means we have come to see that David is not a perfect person.  He was blessed by God but he also had his short-comings.  We come to see that David will be known most for being a man who pursued God with his life.  Those failings did not deter him from an all-out pursuit of God.  Would you like to be known as a person after God’s own heart?