A Man's After God's Own Heart

King David, he was a poet, shepherd, a giant killer, and ancestor of Jesus – in short, one of the greatest men in the Bible, often described as a man after Gods own heart. Along with the list of good things is another list; things like betrayer, liar, adulterer, and murderer.

Although David is described as a man after God’s own heart, he had serious lapses of character and it cost him dearly – murder was a constant threat to his family, his household rebelled against him, his first child by Bathsheba died.

The story of David shows us that even a person of strong faith can struggle with character problems and can suffer painful consequences when those problems are left unchecked.
George Munzing, in this book “living a Life of Integrity,” said:
If you cheat in practice, you’ll cheat in the game.
If you cheat in your head, you’ll cheat on the test.
You’ll cheat on the girl. You’ll cheat in business. You’ll cheat on your mate. Sow a though, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.

David was a man “after” God’s own heart, but this is where most of us mess up. You see the chase shouldn’t end once we ‘get’ God, but instead it should just begin.