King David was a young lad when he was anointed King.
He already knew the Lord.
He feared the Lord, knowing His authority.
He knew God’s power and His protection.
It is not clear when He learned of God’s grace.
The first time David came on the scene in the bible
was when Samuel the prophet had been told by the Lord
that one of Jesse’s sons shall be anointed as King.
King Saul was still the King and had also been anointed by Samuel.
God had been very disappointed about having made Saul King.
When Jesse brought all of his sons to Samuel and Samuel said,
“It is none of these” that Jesse finally brought David before Samuel.
Samuel knew immediately that David was the one the Lord had chosen.
Samuel had learned to hear the Lord’s voice when he was a child.
The One who could see hearts chose David to rule Israel and to lead His people.
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.
So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah. 1 Samuel 16:13
David rose up against the giant of the Philistines who was mocking God.
This giant was about 9 1/2 feet tall.
David took 5 smooth stones, but only used one,
which he slung and it sank into the Philistine’s forehead and killed him.
Who is this Philistine to defy the armies of the Living God?
And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying,
What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine,
and taketh away the reproach from Israel?
for who is this uncircumcised Philistine,
that he should defy the armies of the living God? 1 Samuel 17:26
David was very dependent and reliant on the Lord while Saul was still alive. David had many chances to kill Saul and be done with the situation
but David did not want to touch the Lord’s anointed.
Even though God had rejected Saul from being the King,
David did not want to take that responsibility into his own hands.
He waited on the Lord. Saul eventually died, but not at the hands of David.
David was a man of war.
He fought and won many battles.
For that, David desired to build God a house,
but God wanted it to be built by a man who had not shed so much blood.
But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for My name,
because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood. 1 Chronicles 28:3
When David had Uriah the Hittite killed so he could have his wife,
God let David know how disappointed He was with him.
He told him through Samuel that he deserved to die,
but He was going to spare his life.
God was still angry with him and his punishment was
that he would have turmoil rise up from his own house.
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord,
to do evil in his sight?
thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword,
and hast taken his wife to be thy wife,
and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house;
because thou hast despised Me,
and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. 2 Samuel 12:9-10
David did a few things that offended the Lord.
And, some of the psalms that David wrote
show how David was acquainted with God’s forgiveness and mercy
He numbered the Israelites and God let him choose his punishment.
David chose to be in the hands of the Lord
because David knew God was gracious and merciful.
We all have our faults and God still loves us and cares for us and encourages us to be the persons He has created each of us to be.
We can see God’s grace on David’s life.
May we know the graciousness of God in each of our lives.
God ultimately chose David’s bloodline to be born from on Earth
as Jesus, God in the flesh. That is a very beautiful honor.