Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, February 15 (13:14)
“The Lord hath sought Him a man after His own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over His people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee” — 1 Samuel 13:14.
IT was in his confident trust that David was a man after God’s own heart (1 Sam. 13:14). He was in himself a sinner like all others (Rom. 3:23), but he repented bitterly of his failures, which brought him so much unhappiness, and which entailed grave dishonor upon the sacred name so dear to him. He rested at last upon “the sure mercies of David” (Isa. 55:3), that is, the divine promises, and his songs of joyous confidence in the God of his salvation have become the models for all true praise and worship, and have been loved by both pious Jews and devout Christians throughout all the centuries since he sang them in Judea so long ago.
—J. C. Deck.