A person after God’s own Heart
Strong's Hebrew: 3820. לֵב (leb) -- heart,
hearts, mindzzz
Strong's Hebrew:
3820. לֵב (leb) -- heart, hearts, mindzzz.[i]
The Hebrew word lev (or levav) represents the entire inner person. This means heart represents the entire inner person, our thoughts, will, intellect, emotions, the choices we make, and all of these comes from the heart. Heart is the source of all good and evil, and the Bible sees heart as the control centre.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life; Prov. 4: 23.
Strong's Greek: 2588. καρδία (kardia) -- Heart -
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Kardia appears 158 times in the Greek New Testament, spanning every major literary genre—Gospels, Acts, Pauline epistles, General epistles, and Revelation. While the term can describe the physical …[ii]
G2588 - kardia - Strong's Greek Lexicon (ESV) - Blue
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καρδία kardía, kar-dee'-ah; prolonged from a primary κάρ kár (Latin cor, "heart"); the heart, i.e. (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy) the middle:— (+ broken-)heart (-ed).[iii]
But now thy kingdom shall not continue: 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 Sam. 13: 14.
Our purpose here is to arrive at a true definition of God's purpose
for our own heart. Our soul is the intellectual property endowed to us from
God, and this includes, mind, will, intellect , and emotions, and our heart
becomes the control centre.
2 Samuel 6; 1 Chronicles 13, 15, 16
speaks about David bringing the Ark to Jerusalem, after defeating Philistines,
marking the establishment of Jerusalem as both the political and spiritual
center of Israel. We can trace the journey of the Ark of the Covenant from the
Tabernacle in Shiloh to the City of David in Jerusalem, as in I Samuel 4:1-7.
A man after His own heart: What does this mean? We can discover this by
looking at the man who was not a man after His own heart and that is (Saul). Compare this with the man who was a man after His own heart (David). For God to give a testament about a
person that he or she is after His own heart, is everything- that is giving more
than the whole world to that person!
A man after God’s own heart loves people;
has a soft repentant heart. David confessed his own sins with bitter agony. Whereas
Saul when confronted gave many excuses, and he became extremely bitter against
David. David
loved his people around him. When David was down in his own valley, and outcast
he still loved and served those who were even more down and outcast; 1
Sam. 22: 1-2. Something for us to learn
and put it in practice.
God
told about David; as a man of His own heart. Why? Because David had a heart for
the Ark of the Covenant. Wherever the Ark went, they brought deliverance,
healing, victory.
Whatever is pending today, the unanswered
prayer for a long time; whatever bothers our heart, we bring the Ark in the
scene; The Blood Christ, and the word of God. The Ark is Jesus Christ Himself. We
can learn to love and pursue God with the kind of passion David had, and we all
can become the kind of man or woman after God’s own heart.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new
spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh;
Eze. 36: 26.
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