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He Wore An

Oath To The Lord11

[Ps 132:1-18]

/ Anne's Faith Column

 

 

/ By Priscilla

 

David was a man

after God's own heart.

 

 

His relationship with God

was very close and intimate.

 

 

He showed his faith

by swearing an oath to God,

and God also showed

his will to him.

 

 

We can know this through

the records in the Bible.

 

 

Then shall we find out

how David became a man

after God's own heart?

 

 

God already trained

him in the heart of

a shepherd while he

carried out the mission

of being with sheep,

 

 

fighting against fierce

wolves in the wilderness

when he was a little boy.

 

 

And God gave him

the ability to attack Goliath,

and God chose him as king.

 

 

That was because

his heart and zeal for

God came up

before Him.

 

 

Like this his hope

was always in God.

 

 

He served God with

all his heart and soul

enough to touch

God's heart.

 

 

As a little boy shepherd,

relying on the Lord

Almighty, he boldly

 

 

went out against the

Philistine giant and

shouted like this

to 'Giant Goliath'

 

 

who despised

and scared David.

 

 

"You come against me

with sword and spear

and javelin, but I come

 

 

against you in the name

of the Lord Almighty,

 

 

the God of the armies

of Israel, whom you

have defied. 

(1 Sam 17:45)

 

 

What a brave man

and how faithful

to God!

 

 

We can see

that his faith was great

enough to impress God.

 

 

His deed has been

a monumental case

to be remembered

not only in his

biography,

 

 

but also to the present

and will be in the future.

 

 

Especially

in today's text,

David says:

 

 

"I will not enter

my house or go to

my bed till I find

a place for the Lord."

 

 

His attitude of faith

and his heart is touching

enough to cry.

 

 

He never forgot that

he had made a vow

and what he had

sworn to God

 

 

and he tried to

keep all of them.

 

 

God must have been

moved and pleased

with his heart for Him.

 

 

After he was anointed

asking, however,

 

 

we can not deny that

he was a human just

like us, who had

 a human weakness.

 

 

But surprisingly

he never retaliated

against those who

tried to harm him.

 

 

Especially even in the

relationship with the

'King Saul', who tracked

 

 

his son-in-law David

constantly to harm him,

 

 

he was a really

obedient person

 

 

who put the judgment

in the hands of

Almighty God.

 

 

Also he showed kindness

even to Jonathan's son.

 

 

('Jonathan' was the

son of King Saul and

David's close friend.)

 

 

 

He was correctly

the one who kept

his vow or oath.

 

 

Through Nathan

the prophet, when

he realized that

 

 

he committed 

a great guilt that

couldn't be forgiven

before God,

 

 

immediately he hid

his face and knelt

down to repent.

 

 

And he confessed

the guilt that he

committed in a broken

and contrite heart.

 

 

Longing for God all

the time, he asked

the Lord to be with

  him always.

 

 

Even though

he was a king, as a

believer who asked

the Lord to turn His

face toward him,

 

 

he was a so-called

'believer of deeds'

who struggled to see

the Lord face to face.

 

 

All these good deeds

were so pure that

 God was so moved?

 

 

Crisises and hardships

made him hide

in the caves,

 

 

and caused him

to praise the Lord

with all his heart

 

 

and soul at night, with

the psalms written

in his inspiration.

 

 

God was willing to

take all his praise

with pleasure

 

 

and God also swore 

an oath to bless David

and his descendants.

 

 

Like this, God has

established his covenan

t to take responsibility

 

 

for our lives through

the terms of his covenant.

 

 

And he has been fulfilling

his covenant ever

since then.

 

 

In the Bible,

the eyes of the Lord

range throughout

the earth

 

 

to find good and faithful

workers in whom

are the spirit.

 

 

We may make a vow

or an oath to the

Lord so easily

 

 

and then we may

 forget that.

 

 

However, the faithful

God is sure to remember

that, and in his own way

he urges us or makes

 us remind that.

 

 

Therefore if you

remember your

vow to God?

 

 

1) Go back to the

 drawing board!

 

 

I want you to cut off

thoughts or ideas to be

removed and go back

to the first moment

you met the Lord.

 

 

2) Long to meet the Lord!

 

 

I really want you to be

united with the Lord,

and set a time to pray,

 

 

and have a burning

desire to meet him

spiritually in prayer.

 

 

3) Put God first in your life.

 

 

Try to keep what you

vowed to God like David.

 

 

4) Ask the Holy Spirit!

 

 

Finally, ask the Holy Spirit

on your knees to be full

of the word of truth.

 

 

 

2009/02/19

 

 

/ By Priscilla