Like David

We know the name, but what really, beyond the name is it about King David that is so admirable and worthy of praise. Why does the Lord call him, “My king”? Below are some characteristic parts about David that will reveal what garnered the Lords favor and how we to, if we strive and yield, may also find favor with God.

LOVED SHAMELESSLY

David loved shamelessly. he loved as kings do. In a way that did not threaten his anointing, his kingship, his manhood or masculinity. It is ok to say I love you. It is the better expression. I do not wish love to be misconstrued or confused at all. The genuineness of David love did not allow for shame, for love has cast out fear. Love is reciprocated and at times one side may have a portion of love that the other side does not feel can be matched. In this case Jonathan surely and provenly loved David, yet the scripture says that David on his part loved Jonathan “more so”. Motions of the heart should not be inhibited and this is how David felt for his friend. Not every relationship may attain to this level. This fact makes true expressions of love even more valuable. David loved as God loves. He kissed the ground three times to thank God for his friend because that is how much he loved him.

They would have died for each other, and they loved each other as themselves. David loved Jonathan so that after Jonathan David still remembered him and his house, which leads to the next feature of David that pleased God.

HONORED AND REMEMBERED HIS FRIENDS

(I BELIEVE GOD LOVES THIS QUALITY, BECAUSE WE LOVE A MAN LIKE OURSELVES, AND IF WE CANNOT DO THIS, WE CAN NEITHER LOVE NOR CLAIM TO LOVE GOD)

INTEGRITY

ACKNOWLEDGED GOD IN ALL THINGS, EVEN WHEN HE WAS IN DANGER.

COURAGE

David and Goliath. Daivd has killed 10,000.

RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT

HUMILITY

How shall I, a common man, marry the daughter of a king.

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

Was a shepherd in the field, last born among his brothers.

“Despise not small beginnings”

WENT TO WAR

EMPATHETIC

TO ABNER AND THE OTHER THAT LOST HIS LIFE TO JOAB. “THESE SONS OF ZEURUIAH”

He saw it happening to himself very surely, and the proer treatment of honor.

CARED FOR HIS FATHER

David would go back to care for his father, during war times.

DID NOT SUCCUMB TO FLATTERY OR PRAISE

When the servants killed a king in his bed, and David slayed them for it.

SACRIFICED WITH WHAT WOULD COST HIM, AFFLICTING HIMSELF

I will not sacrifice to God that which has cost me nothing. Recognized the necessity of sacrifice and that it be an honorable sacrifice from a true place of yielding.

SINNED EARNESTLY

David sinned in a way that truly only the grace of God would save him from judgment. He did not measure his sin so as to see how much he might be able to “get away” with, this is contemptible, but instead he sinned and he sinned big. As bad as it was, it was earnest, and He knew what judgement He was deserving of, not before man, but before God. Man in the Arena.

GAVE GLORY TO GOD “THE LORD WILL GIVE YOU INTO MY HAND”

For the Lord does not prevail by sword or spear. Understood that his strength was completely and wholly from the Lord. This was his great and enduring victory.

DID NOT REACH FOR GLORY. SIMPLY SERVED GOD, WHEREVER HE WAS.

Though he defeated Goliath, he did not initially rush to the front to battle the giant. He was last in coming and after seeing that no one in the troop was willing to battle or encourage the troops to battle, and that every one in the company was afraid, then He claimed the name of the Lord and went to battle. And they wanted to armor him, but this was not his battle.

Neither did he assail the throne. It was given to him and upon that he had to wait  some time for the coronation to happen. He was not greedy for the throne but zealous for the kingdom.

CARED FOR THOSE WHO AFFLICTED HIM

David, though he had been pursued by Saul to kill him, played for Saul when he was distressed in the night time, that he may find rest. When David found him in the field, twice he did him no harm, acknowledging him as the once and still anointed of God. He would not harm him for the fear of God. He sought peace between himself and Saul, until Saul eventually killed himself. It was very depressing. Again David was pushed into the wilderness by Absalom, his son who was attempting to usurp the throne from his father. When the boy was killed by Joab (though he did not know that it was Joab who killed him) upon seeing that his company was victorious, his first concern was for his son, asking “and what of the boy?” He could not forget his son, no matter what Absolom had done.

LED HIS TROOPS

Zealous to build Gods house
Though he was not able to, or rather not allowed because of “the blood on his hands” David was still very anxious to build a house for the Lord. The Lord said that He did not need a house made by man and moreover it was not David who would build the house of The Lord but Davids posterity who would do the work of building the Lords temple. This shows the criteria of one offering a sacrifice to the Lord and why the Levitical priests had to sacrifice on behalf of Israel. nevertheless though David could not build The Lords temple directly and while he was yet alive, he provided advice and material for Solomon to continue the work. He was much more willing than what he was able to do. This is better than be able but unwilling.

Yielded himself to justice

And if I ahve fone so, may the enemy overtake me and tread me in the dust.
Dynamic: Harp and Sword

PERFECT HATRED

SANG THE PAIN OF HIS PEOPLE
wrote continuously, many psalms. “The psalmist of Israel”

Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

WAS ESTABLISHED BY GOD