23 Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my concerns.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me;
lead me in the everlasting way. (Psalm 139:23-24 CSB)
David was “a man after God’s own heart.” Those are God’s words not mans which makes that statement even more profound. But David was not perfect. David had flaws and David sinned. But David sought the Lord more than he sought his own pleasure.
God would love us to be perfect, patterned after His own son, but He knows that this is not possible. We are flawed humans in a flawed world. However, we can continually seek God and ask to be lead in the everlasting way. This means that we seek God’s will more than our own. We are encouraged by His ways and understand that they are higher and better than our own.
God knows our heart, even when our actions are not the best. He knows, at our root, the type person we are and if we are seeking His will in the majority of our lives. It is not that God overlooks our sin, but that He atoned for those sins through His son and has forgiven us of the sins we have or will ever commit. This is not a license to do as we like, but a reason to seek God’s own heart more and more.
A continual desire to be a person after God’s own heart puts us closer to being that which God created us to be. Our best comes out when seeking His best.
