David was a man after God's own heart. God loved him, and he loved God. Not all men loved David though. Saul could not stand his guts. Saul did not understand why a man like David could steal praises that would otherwise have been his. He was jealous of him.
1 Samuel 18:6-8 It happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and with musical instruments. The women sang as they played, and said, "Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands." Then Saul became very angry, for this saying displeased him; and he said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?"
David had a heart for God.....to David loving God was not about the praises he would get. Serving God and killing Goliath was in honour of God. David ascribed all praise to God. He acknowledged God in all that he did. His eyes were on God, not on man. He had not asked to be King, God placed him there. In the same way, Saul had not asked to be King , God placed him there.
Saul sinned against God, so did David. They were both mere sinful men that fell weak and prey to wanting to please men. But the difference between David and Saul was that when God's Spirit convicted them of their sin, David repented in the full glare of his servants, whereas Saul still sought to please his servants and look right in their sight.
We start to err from when we become people pleasers . Saul offended God in 1 Samuel 13, and again in 1 Samuel 15. He was told by Samuel how God had rejected him as king, all Saul could think about was how he looked before men - 1 Samuel 15:30 Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honour me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may bow before the LORD your God.”
David started to trod on this same path, he had committed adultery and for fear of man had committed murder in order to save his face . Yet as soon as God rebuked him, David totally repented and showed his penitence, even before his servants, not as a show off, but because he was actually broken with conviction of his sins. God loves a man that is real to himself and to the Godhead.
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