by Claude Evans, Stony Point Baptist Church
The nation of Israel wanted a king. They grew tired of the theocracy in which the Lord God of Abraham ruled over them. So God gave them a king, Saul the son of Kish.
What a figure Saul must have cast as he stood head and neck taller than anyone else in Israel. Surely such a man would make a fine king for God’s nation Israel.
Two years into his reign, I Sam. 13: 1, Saul takes it upon himself to offer a burnt offering instead of waiting for Samuel. Because of this Saul was rejected by the Lord. I Sam. 13: 14,
“But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after His own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over His people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.”
Of course, we know that the “man after His own heart,” is David, the sweet Psalmist of Israel. Let’s look at the man that the Lord sought.
It is none other than David the youngest son of Jesse, a young shepherd boy. In the field while watching the sheep, a bear took a lamb. Imagine the fear in David’s heart. But he went after the bear, delivered the lamb, and slew the bear. Faith in God had given him the victory.
Later a lion came and took a lamb. David, armed with a faith that was proven, went after the lion, delivered the lamb, and slew the lion.
It is no wonder, to this writer, that David faced Goliath the giant with faith and confidence in what God was about to do. I Sam. 17: 37, David said,
“The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, He will deliver me out of the hands of this Philistine.”
God sought for a man of faith. A man that would glorify God in the victories he experienced. David was a man that was not afraid to spend time alone with God. David relied on the Lord as he kept the sheep, as he fought on the battlefield, and as he ruled as king over God’s people.
Will God find a man today? A man that loves his wife as Christ loved the Church. A man that will be a faithful father to his children and bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. A man that will lead his family in service to the Lord. A man that will faithfully worship and serve the Lord in a local church. God is seeking men today.
In Ezekiel 22: 30 God sought for a man and found none.
“And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.”
As God seeks thru our land and country for men today, will you be the kind of man God is looking for? Oh, that God would raise up an army of men who would stand tall on their knees and intercede for our nation, for our churches, and for revival.
Will you answer His call or must He continue to seek for another?
