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A heart that thirsts for God will always be satisfied. That is the summary of the Life of David.
As the most well-known man in the Bible, David has more chapters of God’s Word written about him than any other person in the Bible! He is the one of whom so much is said:
In the Old Testament, Jerusalem God’s city is the city of David.
In the New Testament David God’s servant is called by Paul in Acts 13:22 “And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’
And amazingly, Jesus the incarnate Son of God is called the Son of David.
We need to pay attention to a life like that, a life that God praises, in spite of failures.
What was the essence of David’s life?
What was the passion of his heart that made him godlike?
To find out, turn with me please to his personal testimony in Psalm 63. Here in this song, or Psalm, David distills down the secret of his God-heartedness as – A THIRST FOR GOD.
As the 8th son of Jesse, born and raised in Bethlehem, David was a fearless giant-killer.
As an Israelite, and son of Abraham, David was a true worshiper of God.
As a mere mortal man, David was truly, so much like us. He faced life and all its problems with a fervor and gusto that thrills our souls 3,000 years later.
As a creature seeking and finding his Creator, David is such a true model for us in how to seek and find the God who can satisfy our every need.
From the bleak deserts of Israel comes a passionate longing from this man so real. He was a soldier, a father, a statesman, and a king. But when he writes for us his testimony he has just come off the most difficult time of his life.
He is alone and afraid out in a desolate wilderness.
He has fled from the murderous plot of King Saul, his own father-in-law who sent soldiers to kill David.
Fleeing the country David finds himself captured by the Philistines, the fierce enemies of Israel.
Escaping them, David runs to hide in a cave and finds himself surrounded by 400 angry, complaining, coarse vagrants who follow David and make his cave life miserable.
After surviving that ordeal, David is hunted down by Saul and finally escapes to the wilderness alone. There as I Samuel 22:5 tells us, he rests and writes these incredible