After my heart

When I think of David, I think: shepherd, poet, giant-killer, ancestor of Jesus--in short, one of the greatest men in the Old Testament. But alongside that list stands another: liar, betrayer, adulterer, murderer. I guess the first list is a list of qualities I would like to have; the second, qualities that might be true of any one of us. Yet even after his failures, God called David a "Man after My heart". It seems David learned from his sins, was genuinely repentant, and accepted the consequences and suffering that came with them.

I say this to remind myself that perhaps, I can also learn from my failures, my sins, and become a man that, above all things, seeks the heart of God.