Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar;
I Samuel 13:14: “But now thy kingdom shall not continue; the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart.”
We all know that this man after God’s heart was David. Second to the question as to what version I of the Bible I would recommend (the original) is the question as to what it means that David had a heart after God. There is not much from the text to shed light on what that means, except one thing. The phrase “after his heart” is one word, “kilavavu.” This literally means “like His heart.” David had a heart like the heart of God. The word heart in Hebrew, “lev” is also used for life, thought reasoning, understanding, will, judgment, design affection, love courage fear, joy, sorrow. That much we know. But what else represents the heart of God.
If David had a heart like God we can look at David to learn more about the heart of God. David had a heart that was easily broken. He had a heart that knew sorrow, rejection. That means that God has a heart that is easily broken, that can know sorrow and rejection.
Yesterday, I talked about the Sabbath Bride. This is showing a relationship to God as a groom to a bride, with Jesus as the bride. A husband desires to protect his wife’s heart. How can we, just mortals protect God? We can protect His heart. The very act of love, the very act of intimacy is rooted in becoming vulnerable. If God created us in His image, then for God to express love He must become vulnerable. If we have the capacity to break God’s heart, then we also have the power to protect God’s heart.
Oh, but there are millions and millions of Christians in the world, how will my little rejections affect Him? I recently saw a news clip of a grieving mother who had lost a child. The reporter mentioned her 11 other children and she looked at him and said; “Even if I had 100 children, it still hurts just as bad to loose the one as if he were an only child.” Even if God has a billion children it will hurt Him as bad to lose you, for you to reject Him would break His heart as if you were His only child.
We Christians must understand the heart of David to understand the Psalms and stories of David. When Nathan presented David’s sin to him, David wept, not because he was caught or found out, but because he had come to the reality that he had broken the heart of His God. David was a true Husband to God.
You want to have a heart “after God” like David? Then understand David. He was a husband to God, he strived to protect the heart of his Beloved. He ached if he even bruised the heart of his Beloved. He did not forget the anniversaries, the little gifts, those little things that mean so much to a wife, that would mean so much to a tender hearted God.
The Jewish sages teach three levels of prayer. A child to a parent (I want, I need, give me.), a wife to a husband (love me, cherish me, protect me, provide for me), and the third, the highest level of prayer, a husband to a wife (a desire to cherish, honor and protect the heart of his beloved). This is a time for Christians to move to that third level and be a husband to God and protect His heart, no matter what the sacrifice.
Queen Victoria deeply loved her husband, Prince Albert. It was truly a marriage of love for her. She was Queen of the most powerful nation in the world, one of the richest woman of that day, she owned the crown jewels and had everything anyone could want. Yet her most cherished moments were when Prince Albert would read a book to her. It didn’t matter what book, what mattered was that he was spending time from his busy schedule to be alone with her so he could read to her. The monarch of the most powerful nation in the world, yet it was one man, Prince Albert, that protected her heart.
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