In Psalm 51, verse 3, a part of King David’s prayer to God was, “For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.”
Transgressions are (in a nutshell) rebellious acts. Rebellion is deliberately going in the opposite direction or opposing… This means we know what is right or what we have been advised to do or not do.
There is an arrogant, flagrant, deadly pride in the heart of people who tell God to his face that He is blind and a fool. Oh we would never say that, but essentially, that is what rebellion says and so many more things along the same lines. … Because surely if God is right all the time and knows what He is doing to get us successfully from glory to glory, from success to dominion, from earthly to living dimensions unheard of, we would do what He says.
Like Israel who saw but did not perceive [Isaiah 6:9], we say we see, but live blind (without perception). In Matthew 6:23, Jesus said if the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness.
The most (one of the most) attractive qualities of King David that the God of all the universe would call him a man after His own heart, was his humility. Humility even though he was a king. Humility that honored God as God. King David agreed with God. He did not stand rebutting and refuting God. When Nathan (the prophet) came to address Him about Bathsheba and Uriah, King David didn’t make excuses or pay off the scandal. He repented in a sincerity of heart that was a testament of why he belonged in the Hall of Fame of a man after the heart of God. King
David loved truth. He respected truth.
When we bow to the God of all gods, we defy the human id ego in us that is similar to the pride that sealed Lucifer's fate to be cast from heaven to hell.
This is our Father’s world. We are fortunate to have an opportunity and a privilege to contribute to anything so grand and we fall flat on our faces before the God who so freely and richly grants us the graces of breathing His air. As much as we are kings in His earth, we recognize like the centurion who had power and was under authority recognized.
We do not pull rank with God. When we tell Him He is a liar, we are past pulling rank with God. We place ourselves (our thrones) above God. We are elevating ourselves out of the jurisdiction of faith to pride. And so, we set ourselves up for a fall.
When King David chose rebellion, he did the same; whatever his motives, the end result was the same. The heart of the King in David wasn’t that he called his own shots, nor that he stayed on his tangents creating a world of his own that everyone else had to come and live in. He saw what God pointed out to him the way God saw it, repented and changed course to live truth – God’s way.
God isn’t so small that He gets hung up on our pettiness. God is love. He’s bigger than our things but loving and gracious enough to get it. God gets our human flailings. God understands, but God wants us to level up to greatness. Heart of a King.
