We know David as a “man after God’s own heart.” But when his story begins, he is not a man, but a boy.
One day David arrives at the battlefield with lunch for his older brothers. He cannot believe what he is seeing. Fear has paralyzed the “men of Israel.” The source of their fear is a giant who is defying Israel’s God. David is shocked that these “men of Israel” have responded to Goliath out of fear, rather than faith. David strikes Goliath dead with a stone and slingshot.
What gives a boy courage when men cower in fear? David has known God personally from his childhood. He didn’t just hear about God: he saw God act, delivering his sheep from the lion and the bear. When he confronts the giant, he knows God will come through again. From that day forward, we see “a boy after God’s heart” develop into “a man after God’s heart.”
How are you developing into a person after God’s heart? How can you draw upon past experience with God to face the giants of today? And how are you modeling faith instead of fear to the boys and girls of the next generation around you, so they, too, can become men and women after God’s heart?
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